An official recommendation that extra trains are laid on to Fishguard is set to be shunted to the sidings.
The Welsh Assembly’s Enterprise and Learning Committee said the town should have more than two trains a day– a proposal also backed by regional transport consortium SWWITCH, local petitioners and the North Pembrokeshire Transport Forum.
But Preseli Pembrokeshire AM Paul Davies is warning that the Welsh Assembly Government is set to ignore the committee’s recommendation this week.
“We will be debating the issue on Wednesday and the Government has said it will be rejecting the recommendation of more trains for the town,” he said.
“This is a bitter blow as the Committee made a strong business case for more trains.”
At the moment, Fishguard is served by just two boat trains every 24 hours, including one in the middle of the night. A 1,300 signature petition collected by local school pupils Sam Faulkner and Joanne Griffiths and handed to the Welsh Assembly petitions committee by Mr Davies called for five trains a day.
SWWITCH also threw its weight behind the suggestion and the Assembly’s cross-party Learning and Enterprise Committee agreed.
“Laying on extra trains to Fishguard does not rely in costly doubling of the track and could be done straight away,” said Mr Davies. “But the Welsh Assembly Government seems to be determined to ignore the overwhelming case for extra trains to Fishguard.”
