Clunderwen railway station

Clunderwen
The staggered platforms at Clunderwen station
Location
Place	Clynderwen
Local authority	Pembrokeshire
Coordinates	51°50′28″N 4°43′55″W / 51.841°N 4.732°WCoordinates: 51°50′28″N 4°43′55″W / 51.841°N 4.732°W
Grid reference	SN119192
Operations
Station code	CUW
Managed by	Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	22,072
2011/12	24,782
2012/13	24,196
2013/14	24,572
2014/15	24,968
History
Original company	South Wales Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
2 January 1854	Opened as Narberth Road for Cardigan and Tenby
1863	Renamed Narberth Road for Cardigan
1 December 1875	Renamed Clynderwen
6 September 1965	Renamed Clynderwen Halt
5 May 1969	Renamed Clynderwen
12 May 1980	Renamed Clunderwen
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Clunderwen from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Clunderwen railway station serves the village of Clynderwen (Welsh: Clunderwen) in Pembrokeshire, Wales.The station is currently unmanned. It is a request stop, and therefore trains will only stop if a patron requires to get on or off there.

History

The South Wales Railway was extended from Carmarthen Junction to Haverfordwest on 2 January 1854,^[1] 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.^[2]

The station was renamed Clynderwen on 1 December 1875,^[3] 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.^[4] The Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway (NR&MR) opened in 1876, the junction of that line being to the west of Clynderwen station; and the NR&MR trains to Rosebush used a bay at the eastern end of the up side of the station.^[5] Initially trains had to reverse in and out of the platform, but with the extension of the Rosebush line to Letterston by the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway (NP&FR) in 1895 (the NP&FR having taken over the NR&MR), the layout at Clynderwen was improved.^[6]

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.^[7]

High speed train services ran through Clunderwen to Milford Haven until the early 1990s, terminating in 1994.^[8]

Trains that stop here go to Milford Haven westbound and to Swansea, Cardiff Central, Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly eastbound.^[9] A basic two-hourly frequency runs Mon-Sat, with fewer trains on Sundays.

Notes

1. MacDermot 1927, pp. 572–3,865.
2. Butt 1995, p. 166.
3. Butt 1995, pp. 166,64.
4. Parker & Morris 2008, p. 61.
5. Parker & Morris 2008, pp. 59,60,103–4.
6. Parker & Morris 2008, pp. 112–3.
7. Butt 1995, p. 64.
8. Intercity Magazine Network Map 1993 Retrieved 5 December 2012
9. Table 128 National Rail timetable, May 2016

References

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
• MacDermot, E.T. (1927). History of the Great Western Railway, vol. I: 1833-1863. Paddington: Great Western Railway.
• Parker, Richard; Morris, John (2008) [1981]. The Railways of Pembrokeshire. Corhampton: Noodle Books. ISBN 978-1-906419-07-3.

External links

• Train times and station information for Clunderwen railway station from National Rail
• Clynderwen Station on navigable 1946 O.S. map