Clunderwen railway station serves the village of
Clynderwen
Clynderwen ( cy, Clunderwen; ) is a rural linear village and community (Wales), community, Historic counties of Wales, historically in Carmarthenshire in Wales, but administered as part of Pembrokeshire. It lies on the A478 road, A478 Tenby to Ca ...
( cy, Clunderwen) in
Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire ( ; cy, Sir Benfro ) is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and the rest by sea. The count ...
, Wales. The station is unmanned. It is a
request stop
In public transport, a request stop, flag stop, or whistle stop is a stop or station at which buses or trains, respectively, stop only on request; that is, only if there are passengers or freight to be picked up or dropped off. In this way, st ...
.
History
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 ...
was extended from to on 2 January 1854, 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.
The station was renamed ''Clynderwen'' on 1 December 1875, 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. The
Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway
The Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway was a Welsh light railway company in Pembrokeshire. Services started in January 1876.
Route
The line ran from Clynderwen (formerly Narberth Road) on the Great Western Railway via Maenclochog to Rosebu ...
(NR&MR) opened in 1876, the junction of that line being to the west of Clynderwen station; and the NR&MR trains to used a bay at the eastern end of the
up side of the station. Initially trains had to reverse in and out of the platform, but with the extension of the Rosebush line to by the
North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway
The North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway was a railway company in south-west Wales, incorporated to extend the moribund Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway, with a view to developing a port on Fishguard Bay and ferry services to Rosslare i ...
(NP&FR) in 1895 (the NP&FR having taken over the NR&MR), the layout at Clynderwen was improved.
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.
Services
services ran through Clunderwen to Milford Haven until the early 1990s, terminating in 1994.
Trains that stop here go to Milford Haven westbound and to Swansea, Cardiff Central, Crewe and
Manchester Piccadilly
Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England. Opened as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-east of Manchester city ...
eastbound.
A basic two-hourly frequency runs Mon-Sat, with fewer trains on Sundays.
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External links
Clynderwen Station on navigable 1946 O.S. map
{{Railway stations in Pembrokeshire
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