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Letterston, HAVERFORDWEST, SA62 5SY

Letterston was the most westerly station on a branch that served North Pembrokeshire by forming a loop off the GWR main line to Fishguard Harbour. The last passenger train ran in 1937 and most of the line closed to goods traffic in 1949. The old loading bay survives alongside the wooden station building still in use as a residence.

This row of cottages, which is beyond the village proper, is named for its proximity to the former station on the dismantled North Pembrokeshire railway.

View SE, towards Clynderwen: ex-GWR Clynderwen - Rosebush - Fishguard branch. Until the shorter line from Clarbeston Road to Fishguard was opened in 8/1906 as the main line, this little-known branch was the access to Fishguard. The branch through Rosebush was closed 25/10/37 (goods 16/5/49), but the short stretch west from Letterston survived (for goods) until 1/3/65.

Opened in 1895 by the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway, later part of the Great Western Railway, on its line from Clunderwen to Fishguard & Goodwick, this station closed to passengers in 1937 and completely in 1965. View south east towards Beulah Halt and Clunderwen. No trace apparently remains. The site has become more overgrown in the seven years since Image was taken. For more details, see http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/l/letterston/index.shtml .

An odd sight at the edge of the village. The ?houseboat seems to be under construction here.

This is the site of the small station at Letterston, opened in 1895, originally as part of The North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway, between Fishguard & Goodwick and Clynderwen, before the line was taken over by the Great Western Railway. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1937, but goods traffic was retained until 1965. The main station buildings and signal box were situated on the Up platform, near the dark green trees in the distance, on the left side of the railway lines. The goods yard and cattle pens on the Down platform were situated on the right side of the railway lines, where the buildings in the distance are sited. Hardly a trace of the old station remains, although the course of the former railway line can be followed from this spot.

A series of portakabins in the disused railway yard has become home to a recycling project that undertakes to make good or re-use (if necessary by cannibalising) broken or unwanted items: furniture, bicycles, tools, appliances, electronic devices, and so on, either for a charge or to sell on or to give to charities. Initiatives like this are springing up in response to the wastage and expense promoted by our consumer society and the polluting effect of the throwaway, single use goods.

All directional signs are broken on this old finger post, positioned opposite the Farmers' Co-op (Letterston Branch).

View of the road junction near the Farmers' Co-op, turn left for Station Road to join the A40, and turn right and right again, for Little Newcastle and Puncheston.

Serving the agricultural community locally: animal feed, medication, equipment, clothing and everything else a farmer could need can be picked up here.