St Clears railway station
St Clears | |
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Location | |
Place | St Clears |
Area | Carmarthenshire |
Coordinates | 51°49′42″N 4°29′32″W / 51.8283°N 4.4923°WCoordinates: 51°49′42″N 4°29′32″W / 51.8283°N 4.4923°W |
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 | Station opened |
15 June 1964 | Station closed |
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z | |
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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 £23,300 in 2016[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. There have been recent proposals to reopen the station as part of the Welsh Governments Rail infrastructure investment.[7]
Routes
Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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Sarnau Line open, station closed |
Great Western Railway South Wales Railway |
Whitland Line and station open |
References
- 1 2 Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 203. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
- ↑ MacDermot, E.T. (1927). History of the Great Western Railway, vol. I: 1833-1863. Paddington: Great Western Railway. pp. 572–3, 865.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 3 "Topics: St. Clears to reopen". The Railway Magazine. 119 (866): 269. June 1973.
- ↑ "Station campaign picks up steam". BBC News Online. 4 February 2009. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
- ↑ "Fresh support for calls to reopen town's rail station". Carmarthen Journal. 25 January 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
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- ↑ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved November 6, 2017.