Kidwelly railway station

Kidwelly Welsh: Cydweli
General information
Location	Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire Wales
Coordinates	51°44′02″N 4°19′01″W / 51.734°N 4.317°W / 51.734; -4.317
Grid reference	SN401064
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
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
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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]

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.