Saundersfoot railway station

Saundersfoot railway station serves the seaside village of 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.

Saundersfoot
Location
PlaceSaundersfoot
Local authorityPembrokeshire
Coordinates51.722°N 4.717°W / 51.722; -4.717
Grid referenceSN123061
Operations
Station codeSDF
Managed byTransport for Wales
Number of platforms1
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 8,282
2015/16 7,900
2016/17 8,384
2017/18 8,002
2018/19 8,346
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Saundersfoot from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Location

The station is a mile from the village centre just off of the B4316 road. The station is within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and about a mile from the coastal path which can be picked up about a 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

Trains call here every two hours in each direction, westwards to Pembroke Dock & 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 train working to and one from Paddington railway station on Saturdays only. There are five trains each way on Sundays in summer & four in winter.[1]

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

References
  1. Table 128 National Rail timetable, May 2019

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