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4 unusual facts about North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway


Fishguard and Goodwick railway station

Complications meant that, despite work having begun at Rosebush in 1878, the line was not completed by 1898 when the company (now called the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway) was purchased by the Great Western Railway Company.

North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway

The company started off as the Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway which was opened between Narberth Road (Clynderwen) and Rosebush, north of Maenclochog, on 19 September 1876.

The whole undertaking was closed on 31 December 1882 and the name changed to the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway in 1884, but it was not re-opened until 11 April 1895 after reconditioning and the addition of an extension from Rosebush to Letterston.

The North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway was a British railway company operating in Wales in the late 19th century.



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