Saundersfoot railway station

Coordinates: 51°43′19″N 4°43′01″W / 51.722°N 4.717°W / 51.722; -4.717
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Saundersfoot
National Rail
General information
LocationSaundersfoot, Pembrokeshire
Wales
Coordinates51°43′19″N 4°43′01″W / 51.722°N 4.717°W / 51.722; -4.717
Grid referenceSN123061
Managed byTransport for Wales
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeSDF
ClassificationDfT category F2
Passengers
2018/19Increase 8,346
2019/20Decrease 7,310
2020/21Decrease 1,366
2021/22Increase 6,036
2022/23Increase 7,110
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Saundersfoot railway station is 1 mile (1.6 km) from Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is managed by Transport for Wales Rail. It is usually a request stop apart from the limited-stop Great Western Railway Pembroke Dock services which make a scheduled stop here.

The station is just off of the B4316 road in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. The Pembrokeshire Coast Path is approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) mile down the lane at St Issell's church.

A tunnel at King's Moor, which formed part of the old Saundersfoot Railway's second line running from the harbour to Thomas Chapel colliery near Begelly passes beneath the GWR station. The route of this old line now forms part of the Miners Walk.

Services[edit]

Trains call here every two hours in each direction, westwards to Pembroke Dock and eastwards to Whitland, Carmarthen and Swansea, where connections can be made for stations to Cardiff and beyond. There are a pair of through trains to Cardiff each day and in the summer, two through Great Western Railway services to and one from London Paddington on Saturdays only. There are five trains each way on Sundays in summer and four in winter.[1]

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Kilgetty   Transport for Wales
West Wales Line
  Tenby
Whitland or Kilgetty   Great Western Railway
London - Pembroke
  Tenby

References[edit]

  1. ^ Table 128 National Rail timetable, May 2019

External links[edit]

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