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Clunderwen railway station

Clunderwen railway station

Railway station in Pembrokeshire, Wales

Clunderwen railway station serves the village of Clynderwen (Welsh: Clunderwen) in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The station is unmanned. It is a request stop.

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History

The South Wales Railway was extended from Carmarthen Junction to Haverfordwest on 2 January 1854,[1] and among the original stations was one known as Narberth Road for Cardigan and Tenby; this was simplified to Narberth Road for Cardigan in 1863.[2]

The station was renamed Clynderwen on 1 December 1875,[3] being named after the Clynderwen Estate, which included property in the area around the station; a previous suggestion to use the parish name Llandisilio was rejected.[4] The Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway (NR&MR) opened in 1876, the junction of that line being to the west of Clynderwen station; and the NR&MR trains to Rosebush used a bay at the eastern end of the up side of the station.[5] Initially trains had to reverse in and out of the platform, but with the extension of the Rosebush line to Letterston by the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway (NP&FR) in 1895 (the NP&FR having taken over the NR&MR), the layout at Clynderwen was improved.[6]

There have been several subsequent amendments to the station's name: to Clynderwen Halt on 6 September 1965; reverting to Clynderwen on 5 May 1969; and finally becoming Clunderwen on 12 May 1980.[7]

Services

InterCity 125 services ran through Clunderwen to Milford Haven until the early 1990s, terminating in 1994.[8]

Trains that stop here go to Milford Haven westbound and to Swansea, Cardiff Central, Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly eastbound.[9] A basic two-hourly frequency runs Mon-Sat, with fewer trains on Sundays.

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Notes

  1. [1]
    MacDermot 1927, pp. 572–3, 865.
  2. [2]
    Butt 1995, p. 166.
  3. [3]
    Butt 1995, pp. 166, 64.
  4. [4]
    Parker & Morris 2008, p. 61.
  5. [5]
    Parker & Morris 2008, pp. 59, 60, 103–4.
  6. [6]
    Parker & Morris 2008, pp. 112–3.
  7. [7]
    Butt 1995, p. 64.
  8. [8]
    Intercity Magazine Network Map 1993. Retrieved 5 December 2012
  9. [9]
    Table 128 National Rail timetable, May 2016

References

  • Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
  • MacDermot, E.T. (1927). History of the Great Western Railway, vol. I: 1833-1863. Paddington: Great Western Railway.
  • Parker, Richard; Morris, John (2008) [1981]. The Railways of Pembrokeshire. Corhampton: Noodle Books. ISBN 978-1-906419-07-3.

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