St Clears railway station

St Clears
Location
Place St Clears
Area Carmarthenshire
Grid reference SN283173
Operations
Original company South Wales Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
History
2 January 1854 (1854-01-02) Station opened
15 June 1964 (1964-06-15) Station closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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St Clears railway station served the small town of St Clears, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It was on the West Wales Line.

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History

The station opened on 2 January 1854.[1] It was on the section of the South Wales Railway which opened that day between the temporary station near Carmarthen and Haverfordwest,[2] and was situated between Sarnau and Whitland.[3]

The station closed on 15 June 1964.[1] An attempt to reopen the station in 1973 was made by five local authorities and organisations, together with the Department of the Environment, which jointly agreed to fund construction of a new station at a total cost of £5,400 (or £18,791 as of 2012[lower-alpha 1]).[4] The new station would consist of concrete platforms adjoining both tracks and timber waiting shelters provided with electric lighting.[4] It had been hoped that works would be swiftly completed so that the first trains could call at St Clears by the end of Summer 1973, but this did not materialise.[4]

There is a local campaign for the reopening of the station, supported by Angela Burns AM.[5]

Routes

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Sarnau
Line open, station closed		   Great Western Railway
South Wales Railway		   Whitland
Line and station open

References

  1. ^ a b Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 203. ISBN 1 85260 508 1. R508. 
  2. ^ MacDermot, E.T. (1927). History of the Great Western Railway, vol. I: 1833-1863. Paddington: Great Western Railway. pp. 572–3,865. 
  3. ^ Conolly, W. Philip (January 1976). British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer (5th ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 7, section A1. ISBN 0 7110 0320 3. EX/0176. 
  4. ^ a b c "Topics: St. Clears to reopen". Railway Magazine 119 (866): 269. June 1973. 
  5. ^ "Station campaign picks up steam". BBC News. 4 February 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7865531.stm. Retrieved 26 November 2010. 
  1. ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.

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