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Pembroke railway station serves the town of

Pembroke, Pembrokeshire Pembroke ( ; cy, Penfro ) is both a town and a community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, with a population of 7,552. The names of both the town and the county (of which the county town is Haverfordwest) have a common origin; both are derived from the ...

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History

On 30 July 1863, Pembroke railway station was opened by the Pembroke and Tenby Railway as the temporary terminus of the line to

Tenby Tenby ( cy, Dinbych-y-pysgod, lit=fortlet of the fish) is both a walled seaside town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on the western side of Carmarthen Bay, and a local government community. Notable features include of sandy beaches and the Pembroke ...

. The station originally consisted of small wooden buildings, with a short 150-foot platform. The following year, the line was extended to

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. A permanent station building was constructed later, built from dressed limestone with a slate roof and three ornamental chimneys. The building contained five rooms; the Station Master's office, a parcels office, a booking office, a general waiting room and a ladies waiting room. Fully glazed canopies were added over the station entrance and platform in the early 1900s, following the takeover of the Pembroke and Tenby by the Great Western Railway. A new shelter was built in 1971, and the main limestone buildings were demolished. This new shelter was in turn was later replaced with a glass panelled shelter.

Facilities

Step-free access is provided from both station car parks to the platform. The station is unstaffed and only has basic amenities: the aforementioned waiting shelter, timetable information posters, bench seating and digital CIS displays to offer train running information in real time. Like many stations in Wales and the North of England, the station was constructed before standard platform heights were established and is very low. In March 2016, the station received a specially designed raised section - a

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- to improve accessibility for passengers.

Services

The station is served every two hours (approximately) to/from Swansea via and

Whitland Whitland (Welsh: , lit. "Old White House", or ''Hendy-gwyn ar Daf'', "Old White House on the River Tâf", from the medieval ''Ty Gwyn ar Daf'') is both a town and a community in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Description The Whitland community is ...

on weekdays, with connections for the South Wales mainline available at Swansea. The Sunday service is limited in winter (4 trains each way), but more frequent in the summer months. On summer Saturdays, the station is also used by Great Western Railway who provided two

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s in each direction; two to

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, one from London Paddington and one early morning InterCity 125 starting its journey from Swansea. One through train in each direction is named 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 ...

''. In 2019, the service has continued running with the brand new Class 800 rolling stock."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

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{{Transport in Pembrokeshire Railway stations in Pembrokeshire DfT Category F1 stations Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863 Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail

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Railway stations served by Great Western Railway