Clunderwen railway station

Clunderwen National Rail

The station as seen from platform 1
Location
Place Clynderwen
Local authority Pembrokeshire
Coordinates 51°50′28″N 4°43′55″W / 51.841°N 4.732°WCoordinates: 51°50′28″N 4°43′55″W / 51.841°N 4.732°W
Grid reference SN119192
Operations
Station code CUW
Managed by Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05  12,709
2005/06 Decrease 12,430
2006/07 Increase 14,297
2007/08 Increase 17,439
2008/09 Increase 19,376
2009/10 Increase 20,542
2010/11 Increase 22,072
2011/12 Increase 24,782
2012/13 Decrease 24,196
2013/14 Increase 24,572
History
Original company South Wales Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
2 January 1854 Opened as Narberth Road for Cardigan and Tenby
1863 Renamed Narberth Road for Cardigan
1 December 1875 Renamed Clynderwen
6 September 1965 Renamed Clynderwen Halt
5 May 1969 Renamed Clynderwen
12 May 1980 Renamed Clunderwen
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Clunderwen from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Clunderwen railway station serves the village of Clynderwen (Welsh: Clunderwen) in Pembrokeshire, Wales.The station is currently unmanned. It is a request stop, and therefore trains will only stop if a patron requires to get on or off there.

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 being 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]

High speed train 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.

Notes

  1. ↑ MacDermot 1927, pp. 572–3,865.
  2. ↑ Butt 1995, p. 166.
  3. ↑ Butt 1995, pp. 166,64.
  4. ↑ Parker & Morris 2008, p. 61.
  5. ↑ Parker & Morris 2008, pp. 59,60,103–4.
  6. ↑ Parker & Morris 2008, pp. 112–3.
  7. ↑ Butt 1995, p. 64.
  8. ↑ Intercity Magazine Network Map 1993 Retrieved 5 December 2012

References

External links

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Whitland   Arriva Trains Wales
West Wales Line		   Clarbeston Road
Disused railways
Terminus   Great Western Railway
Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway		   Llanycefn
Line and station closed