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Contact the photographer for details.";function clickIE4(){if(event.button==2){alert(message);return false;}}function clickNS4(e){if(document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){if(e.which==2||e.which==3){alert(message);return false;}}}if(document.layers){document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document.onmousedown=clickNS4;}else if(document.all&&!document.getElementById){document.onmousedown=clickIE4;}document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false")</script> <style>@media only screen and (max-width:800px){.mainimage{max-width:100%}}</style><link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css"><script language="Javascript" src="/jquery-ui/jqui10/js/jquery-ui-1.10.0.custom.min.js.pagespeed.jm.4dkrtxMyIS.js"></script><div class="container"><p><center><img class="mainimage" src="/images/92000/x92348.jpg.pagespeed.ic.c4LRTuqbQ3.jpg"></center></p><p>D1013 Western Ranger stands at Pembroke Dock with the Pembroke Coast Express run by the Wirral Railway Circle. This tour gave the rare opportunity to visit various locations in West Wales where Westerns once worked, Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock being the highlights as Westerns were still working to Fishguard Harbour. My Late friend Tony Gale was booked on this tour and took a few pictures . The Wirral railway society ceased to exist some time ago but are remembered by the very large amount of Rail Tours they ran back in the day. [Added by Roger Geach.]</p><p>Location: <a href="/locations/P/Pembroke_Dock">Pembroke Dock</a></p><p>Original line: <a href="/companies/P/Pembroke_and_Tenby_Railway">Pembroke and Tenby Railway</a></p><p>Photographer: <a href="/contributors/Tony_Gale">Tony Gale</a></p><p>Contact photographer: <a href="/pm/index.php?img=92348&whoto=Tony Gale" target="contact">Tony Gale</a></p><p><a href="/pm/index.php?img=92348&whoto=Ewan Crawford" target="contact">Contact editor</a></p><p>Date: <a href="/onthisday/10/25">25/10/</a>1975</p><p>Image number: 92348</p><br>Other photographs of Pembroke Dock on RailScot<table style="width: 100%; display: block; overflow-x: scroll;"><tr><td><a title='The former branch from Pembroke Dock station to the dock area itself crossing Gordon Street in May 2012, with rails and gates still in position. Little of the old route, closed in 1969, now survives beyond the buildings on the far side of the gates. ' href='/img/40/55'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/40000/90xNx40055.jpg.pagespeed.ic.9MuXeR8eXW.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='A gate post still in place on the west side of Water Street on the former route to Pembroke Dock, looking to Gordon Street level crossing with the station approximately 50 metres behind the camera.' href='/img/39/430'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/39000/90xNx39430.jpg.pagespeed.ic.8SLsQzlnDz.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='Pembroke Dock on a sunny day in July 2014. The buffer stops and station building are behind me. I wonder if D1013 was the last Western to reach here on the tour around West Wales in autumn 1975. The conductor on my train was interesting to chat to. An ex freight guard who had spent most of his times on coal services.' href='/img/88/343'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/88000/88343.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='ATW single unit 153320 waits at the Pembroke Dock branch terminus prior to returning to Carmarthen and Swansea, as seen from the buffer stops. Can anyone advise what sort of traffic the ramp on the disused platform line was used for?' href='/img/38/480'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/38000/90xNx38480.jpg.pagespeed.ic.bT463ysFH6.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='A DMU stands at Pembroke Dock in May 1986 awaiting its departure time with a service to Swansea.' href='/img/37/882'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/37000/90xNx37882.jpg.pagespeed.ic.7-LvplLwqU.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='153312 lays over at Pembroke Dock on 23 May before returning to Swansea on the 17.09 service. The line previously continued forward across Water Street and between the houses ahead, before crossing Gordon Street in order to continue along to the dock area see image .' href='/img/39/622'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/39000/90xNx39622.jpg.pagespeed.ic.1rUoaNup4x.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='The 1864 branch terminus at Pembroke Dock is still an attractive building, with part of it now converted into The Station Inn, a specialist real ale pub. The branch train can just be seen through the canopied platform entrance. On this occasion it is a single 153 unit heading for Carmarthen and Swansea, although the line also sees through services to Manchester Piccadilly using ATW Class 175s.' href='/img/38/249'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/38000/90xNx38249.jpg.pagespeed.ic.mJAUmxWGkK.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='Extant track and crossing gates on Gordon Street, Pembroke Dock, looking east along trackbed that passes between the houses in the distance and crosses Water Street to access the station some 50 metres beyond see image . 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