The Llanelly Railway station at Brynamman had always been cramped and inconvenient; in 1886 the GWR opened a new to the west of the main road.
The line between Swansea and Pontardulais was doubled by the LNWR by 1894[REF] The very basic Swansea passenger station erected by the Llanelly company was modernised and improved by the LNWR in 1882 [REF].