Transport
Cwmbrân railway station is served by trains on the Welsh Marches Line., with through trains south to Newport and Cardiff. Northbound local trains serve Pontypool and Abergavenny, with longer distance services running to Hereford, Shrewsbury, Crewe, Holyhead and Manchester. The station was not opened until 1986, as one of the last acts of the Cwmbran New Town Development Board. Prior to this, Cwmbrân had been without a train service for 24 years, its original station having been on the Newport-Blaenavon branch line which ran to the west of the town centre. Along with a number of other passenger train services in Monmouthshire, this line closed in April 1962 and was therefore not (as is often wrongly remembered locally) a casualty of the Beeching Axe, having closed eighteen months before the Beeching proposals were announced.
The town has a comprehensive local bus service.
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