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Pembroke Dock Pembroke Dock ( cy, Doc Penfro) is a town and a community in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, northwest of Pembroke on the banks of the River Cleddau. Originally Paterchurch, a small fishing village, Pembroke Dock town expanded rapidly following ...

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 ...

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Transport for Wales Transport for Wales (TfW; cy, Trafnidiaeth Cymru; cy, TrC, label=none) is a not-for-profit company owned by the Welsh Government and managed at arms length by its appointed board. TfW oversees the Transport for Wales Group (TfW Group) consi ...

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Pembroke and Tenby Railway The Pembroke and Tenby Railway was a locally promoted railway in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was built by local supporters and opened in 1863. The line, now known as the Pembroke Dock branch line, remains in use at the present day. In 1814 a Roya ...

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Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

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Pembroke Dock railway station serves the town of

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

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of the Pembroke Dock branch of West Wales Lines from , southwest of .

History

It was opened on 8 August 1864 by the

as an extension of their route from to serve the Royal Navy dockyard in the town, though it was not until 1866 that the P&T route finally reached the main line at Whitland. When constructed, the line was notable having been built as

standard gauge A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), International gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in Ea ...

, not the 7-foot

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used by the

at the time; and so it was isolated from 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 ...

main line until 1868, when dual gauge track was laid as far as to meet the standard gauge tracks of the

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. In 1872, the GWR converted all of its lines in the area to standard gauge. Originally, the station had two platforms. Both remain but only the southern one is in use (the track serving the other has now been removed). Part of the main building has been converted into ''The Station Inn'', a real ale

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. Originally carrying munitions, the freight branch ran past the station across local streets down to the actual dockside until 1969. Subsequently, albeit partially, the track has been lifted. Coal trains to Pembroke Dock ran until the end oft 1978. The twice-weekly service had become uneconomic: in 1969, almost 800 wagons carrying over 10,000 tons of coal had been carried, compared with only 218 wagons with 3,500 tonnes of coal in the first nine months of 1978. In 2020, the Grade II

listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

was regenerated as part of the £24 million Wales Station Improvement Scheme, which saw the restoration of the station canopies while keeping the historic design and character of the station.

Facilities

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is the operator; the station is unstaffed; ticket machine is installed; CIS displays provide train running information in addition to the standard timetable poster boards and public telephone. The station canopies remain to provide a covered waiting area with bench seating. There are no waiting rooms. Level access is available from the car park and at the main entrance to the platform.

Services

There is a regular daily service to/from via Carmarthen and , with some through trains to/from and further east (one service originating at

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). Connections are available at Swansea for mainline destinations at other times. Trains run every two hours Mon-Sat, with a less frequent service on Sundays. On summer Saturdays, the station is served by

who provide two trains to

London Paddington Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London station group, Central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area. The site has been the London terminus of services pro ...

. One train arrives from London Paddington and one train starts in the morning at

Swansea Swansea (; cy, Abertawe ) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea ( cy, links=no, Dinas a Sir Abertawe). The city is the twenty-fifth largest in ...

. The service is named as the

Pembroke Coast Express The ''Pembroke Coast Express'' was a named train operated by British Railways which began running in 1953 along with several other services, as a way of better promoting faster or more direct services. In 2006, the name was used by First Great W ...

and until 2019, it was operated by

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HST sets which have now been replaced by new Class 800 trains."South Pembrokeshire stations, including Tenby and Pembroke Dock, welcome new GWR train"
Davies, Ruth ''Western Telegraph'' news article 30 May 2019; Retrieved 19 August 2019

References

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{{UK International Rail stations Railway stations in Pembrokeshire DfT Category F1 stations Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1864 Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail Railway stations served by Great Western Railway Railway stations serving harbours and ports in the United Kingdom

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