Kidwelly railway station
Railway station in Carmarthenshire, Wales / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kidwelly railway station serves the town of Kidwelly (Welsh: Cydweli), Carmarthenshire, Wales. The station is situated on the coast just southwest of Kidwelly itself. It is 234 miles 32 chains (377.2 km) from the zero point at London Paddington, measured via Stroud.[1]
General information | |||||
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Location | Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire Wales | ||||
Coordinates | 51.734°N 4.317°W / 51.734; -4.317 | ||||
Grid reference | SN401064 | ||||
Managed by | Transport for Wales | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
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Station code | KWL | ||||
Classification | DfT category F1 | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 27,596 | ||||
2019/20 | 24,378 | ||||
2020/21 | 4,054 | ||||
2021/22 | 15,544 | ||||
2022/23 | 20,972 | ||||
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The station was opened by the South Wales Railway on 11 October 1852 and was once the junction for a branch of the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway which ran via Ty Coch to Trimsaran Road.[2] This connection, which lay just to the east of the level crossing, was re-used between 1984 and 1996 for coal traffic to/from the washery at Coedbach following the closure of the flood-prone BP&GVR main line to Burry Port in 1983. Nothing remains today to show the industrial heritage of the railway here, as the branch has been dismantled.