Fishguard and Goodwick railway station
Fishguard and Goodwick 
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| Welsh: Abergwaun ac Wdig | |
A Class 153 Sprinter unit calls at Fishguard & Goodwick on the day of its reopening, 14 May 2012. This was the 09:56 Fishguard Harbour to Carmarthen service.
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| Location | |
| Place | Goodwick |
| Local authority | Pembrokeshire |
| Coordinates | 52°00′13″N 4°59′41″W / 52.0035°N 4.9948°WCoordinates: 52°00′13″N 4°59′41″W / 52.0035°N 4.9948°W |
| Grid reference | SM945381 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | FGW |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
| Owned by | Pembrokeshire County Council |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2012/13 | 12,072 |
| 2013/14 |
 17,062 |
| 2014/15 |
19,874 |
| 2015/16 |
19,946 |
| History | |
| Original company | Great Western Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| 1 August 1899 | Opened as Goodwick |
| 1 May 1904 | Renamed Fishguard and Goodwick |
| 6 April 1964 | Regular services ceased |
| 3 August 1964 | all passenger trains ceased |
| 1965 | Reopened for Motorail services only |
| 19 September 1980 | Closed |
| 14 May 2012 | Reopened for passenger services |
| 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 and Goodwick from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Fishguard and Goodwick railway station is a railway station sited 1 mile from Fishguard in the neighbouring town of Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is owned by Pembrokeshire County Council and just over .5 miles (0.80 km) from the larger Fishguard Harbour station. Following its closure in 1964 (1980 for Motorail), it reopened on 14 May 2012 following investment from Network Rail and Pembrokeshire County Council.
The station was the planned terminus of the Rosebush and Fishguard Railway. 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. It is likely that this takeover was prompted by the North Pembrokeshire & Fishguard Railway's plans for a harbour at Goodwick to attract Irish traffic (the GWR had a major such port at Neyland) and/or their ambitious plan to link this new harbour to Carmarthen with their own line to break the GWR's monopoly of rail lines into west Wales.
Goodwick station opened on 1 August 1899 under GWR ownership. The station was called Goodwick until 1 May 1904 when it was renamed Fishguard and Goodwick. It was a terminus until the GWR opened their extension to Fishguard Harbour in 1906 and moved their Irish ferry operation there from Neyland.
The station was closed on 6 April 1964 by British Railways, when local trains between Fishguard and Clarbeston Road were withdrawn. After closure to normal passenger trains the station remained in use for workmen's trains to the RNAD Trecwn, until these services were withdrawn on 1 August 1964.
From 18 June 1965 the station became the terminus of a seasonal motorail service from London, the end loading dock behind the former main (Up side) platform being used for unloading the cars. Early photographs show the station building to be shorter than it is today, with the extension carried out along with refurbishment for motorail traffic. Motorail kept the station in use each summer season until the regular service ended on 19 September 1980 and the occasional peak service on 16 September 1982.
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