Fishguard Harbour railway station
Fishguard Harbour 
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| Welsh: Porthladd Abergwaun | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Fishguard Harbour |
| Local authority | Pembrokeshire |
| Coordinates | 52°00′43″N 4°59′10″W / 52.012°N 4.986°WCoordinates: 52°00′43″N 4°59′10″W / 52.012°N 4.986°W |
| Grid reference | SM951389 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | FGH |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
| Owned by | Stena Line |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 38,852 |
| 2012/13 |
 35,520 |
| 2013/14 |
29,404 |
| 2014/15 |
26,522 |
| 2015/16 |
22,646 |
| History | |
| Original company | Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| 30 August 1906 | Station opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Fishguard Harbour from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Fishguard Harbour railway station serves the port of Fishguard Harbour, Wales. It is the terminus of one of the branches of the West Wales Line from Swansea. The area is also now served (since it reopened on 14 May 2012) by Fishguard & Goodwick railway station.
The station opened on 30 August 1906 when the Waterford and Cork ferry services were transferred from Neyland to Fishguard Harbour. Three years later, Fishguard Harbour was developed as a port of call for Atlantic liners, and on 30 August 1909 the first Cunard liner to call at Fishguard was the RMS Mauretania.
A large area inside the station/port building, which contains seating and toilets, is open to rail passengers. However, there are no railway ticket machines and the station is staffed only by Stena Line personnel, no rail staff are employed there. This means there is no rail ticket office and passengers travelling from Fishguard by train must purchase their tickets in advance by post, at a different station, or onboard their train. The station has step-free access throughout and the station's owners, Stena Line, permit smoking on the platform. The station also has both long and short stay parking. The minimum connection time from Fishguard Harbour is seven minutes, and when bus replacement services are operating, the buses leave from the car park adjacent to the level crossing.
The station is unusual in that it is not owned by Network Rail but privately by Stena Line. Stena Line allows people to smoke on the platform because it is too dangerous to smoke at the only other possible place, where there is a level crossing over a busy road. The public smoking ban only applies to stations owned by Network Rail.
Since the station is located in the harbour, its primary purpose has always been providing links with sea going transport. As such, there have always been daily services to and from Fishguard Harbour which coincide with the ferry services to Rosslare in Ireland.
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