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Clarbeston Road railway station

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Place
  
Clarbeston Road

Station code
  
CLR

DfT category
  
F2

Number of platforms
  
2

Original company
  
South Wales Railway

Grid reference
  
SN015209

Managed by
  
Arriva Trains Wales

2011/12
  
8,464

Local authority
  
Pembrokeshire

Clarbeston Road railway station

Address
  
Clarbeston Road SA63 4UN, United Kingdom

Similar
  
Fishguard Harbour railway st, Fishguard and Goodwick, Pembrey and Burry Port railw, Dousland railway station, Clunderwen railway station

Clarbeston Road railway station serves villages such as Clarbeston Road, Clarbeston, Wiston, Walton East and Crundale in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The station, originally named Clarbeston, was opened by the South Wales Railway on 2 January 1854. 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 Clunderwen would continue to serve as the junction station.

It is an unstaffed station, with shelters on each platform. Trains stop here by request only. The usual service pattern is one train every two hours in each direction, westwards to Milford Haven and eastwards to Manchester Piccadilly via Swansea and Cardiff Central. The branch line to/from Fishguard Harbour railway station 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. See external links for timetable details.

High speed train services ran through Clarbeston Road to Milford Haven until the early 1990s, terminating in 1994. 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.

References

Clarbeston Road railway station Wikipedia