History
A station was first opened here by the Cardiff Railway on 1 March 1911 and was originally named Coryton Halt; it was renamed Coryton Halt (Glam) by the Great Western Railway in 1926, and relocated in 1931. It was proposed for closure in the Beeching Report of 1963, but survived. The line beyond here closed to all traffic in 1952. The station was given its present name of Coryton on 5 May 1969.
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