St Clears railway station

St Clears

The station was right of the level crossing
Location
Place St Clears
Area Carmarthenshire
Coordinates 51°49′42″N 4°29′32″W / 51.8283°N 4.4923°W / 51.8283; -4.4923Coordinates: 51°49′42″N 4°29′32″W / 51.8283°N 4.4923°W / 51.8283; -4.4923
Grid reference SN283173
Operations
Original company South Wales Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Platforms 2
History
2 January 1854 (1854-01-02) Station opened
15 June 1964 (1964-06-15) Station closed
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St Clears railway station served the small town of St Clears, Carmarthenshire, Wales between 1854 and 1964. It was on the West Wales Line.

History

The station opened on 2 January 1854.[1] It was on the section of the South Wales Railway which opened that day between the temporary station near Carmarthen and Haverfordwest,[2] and was situated between Sarnau and Whitland.[3]

The station closed on 15 June 1964.[1] An attempt to reopen the station in 1973 was made by five local authorities and organisations, together with the Department of the Environment, which jointly agreed to fund construction of a new station at a total cost of £5,400 (equivalent to £22,900 in 2015[lower-alpha 1]).[4] The new station would consist of concrete platforms adjoining both tracks and timber waiting shelters provided with electric lighting.[4] It had been hoped that works would be swiftly completed so that the first trains could call at St Clears by the end of Summer 1973, but this did not materialise.[4]

There is a local campaign for the reopening of the station, supported by Angela Burns AM and William Powell AM.[5][6]

Locals started a Facebook campaign to reopen the station in 2010 and drew in thousands of supporters. The St Clears Times ran a community poll from 2010 and 95% of people who voted were in favour of opening the station.

Routes

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Sarnau
Line open, station closed
  Great Western Railway
South Wales Railway
  Whitland
Line and station open

References

  1. 1 2 Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 203. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
  2. MacDermot, E.T. (1927). History of the Great Western Railway, vol. I: 1833-1863. Paddington: Great Western Railway. pp. 572–3,865.
  3. Conolly, W. Philip (January 1976). British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer (5th ed.). Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 7, section A1. ISBN 0-7110-0320-3. EX/0176.
  4. 1 2 3 "Topics: St. Clears to reopen". The Railway Magazine. 119 (866): 269. June 1973.
  5. "Station campaign picks up steam". BBC News Online. 4 February 2009. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
  6. "Fresh support for calls to reopen town's rail station". Carmarthen Journal. 25 January 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  1. UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2016), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
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