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Clarbeston Road railway station serves villages such as
Clarbeston Road Clarbeston ( cy, Treglarbes) is a village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, east of Haverfordwest. The parish, together with Wiston and Walton East, constitute the community of Wiston. The population was 318 at the 2011 census. Name The Eng ...
, Clarbeston, Wiston,
Walton East Walton East ( cy, Waltwn) is a small rural village and parish established around a church at least as early as Norman times. It is southwest of Llys y Fran and north of Clarbeston Road and in Wiston community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Histor ...
and Crundale in Pembrokeshire,
Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...
. The station, originally named ''Clarbeston'', was opened by the
South Wales Railway The South Wales Railway ( cy, Rheilffordd De Cymru) was a main line railway which opened in stages from 1850, connecting the Great Western Railway from Gloucester to South Wales. It was constructed on the broad gauge. An original aspiration was to ...
on 2 January 1854.


History

A direct route to Fishguard Harbour – the Clarbeston Road and Letterston Railway (CR&LR) – was opened by the Great Western Railway on 30 August 1906, and the station at Clarbeston was renamed ''Clarbeston Road''. As part of the CR&LR works, a number of improvements were made to the west of the station for the anticipated increase in goods traffic, but the passenger facilities were not altered because it was intended that would continue to serve as the junction station. The signal box west of the station now supervises not only the junction between the two routes but also both branches to their respective termini, all of the other boxes on both lines having been closed as part of a 1988 re-signalling scheme that saw control centralised here and colour light signals replace the surviving semaphores.


Facilities

Clarbeston Road is an unstaffed station, with shelters, timetable posters and digital information screens on each platform; there is also a customer help point on platform 2 and a public telephone near platform 1. The platforms are linked via ramps from the adjacent road bridge (so are accessible for disabled passengers, though the eastbound ramp is quite steep and care must be taken when using it). Trains stop here by request only.


Services

The usual service pattern is one train every two hours in each direction, westwards to and eastwards to via and . The branch line to/from diverges here with six direct services each way – three morning, two evening, one night – calling at the station each day Monday to Saturday. There is no direct service on Sundays. While the station serves as a request stop to/from Milford Haven, trains to/from Fishguard Harbour stop here normally.
InterCity 125 The InterCity 125 (originally Inter-City 125New trai ...
services ran through Clarbeston Road to Milford Haven until the early 1990s, ceasing in 1994.''Intercity Magazine Network Map 1993''
Retrieved 5 December 2012


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{{Railway stations in Pembrokeshire Railway stations in Pembrokeshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1854 Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail Railway request stops in Great Britain 1854 establishments in Wales