Penally railway station

Penally railway station serves the village of Penally in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is on the Pembroke Dock branch of the West Wales line operated by Transport for Wales.

Penally
Welsh: Penalun
Location
PlacePenally
Local authorityPembrokeshire
Coordinates51.659°N 4.722°W / 51.659; -4.722
Grid referenceSS118990
Operations
Station codePNA
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 4,990
2015/16 5,444
2016/17 5,332
2017/18 5,168
2018/19 5,102
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Penally from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

Penally station was closed on 15 June 1964, then reopened temporarily during the summers of 1970 and 1971 before being permanently open from 28 February 1972.

Facilities

Step-free access is provided from both station car parks to the platform.[1] The station is unstaffed and only has basic amenities: waiting shelter, timetable information posters and digital CIS displays to offer train running information in real time.[2]

Services

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 destinations in England). There are a pair of through trains to Cardiff each weekday, though late evening services terminate at Carmarthen. There are four trains each way on Sundays.[3] The Summer Saturday GWR service also calls here once a day in both directions.

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

References
  1. Hogg 2001, pp. 13–14
  2. https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/PNA/details.html
  3. Table 128 National Rail timetable, December 2018

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