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.

[2] It was a terminus until the GWR opened their extension to Fishguard Harbour in 1906 and moved their Irish ferry operation there from Neyland.

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.

The reopening work cost £325,000, including realignment of the track by Network Rail by the end of 2011[9] and laying of tarmac over part of the station yard to provide a car park (with further tarmac over the rest of the station yard, to enlarge the car park, a future possibility[10]).

Another aspect of the work was demolition and reconstruction of the station building, which took place in August 2011[11] between the announcement of extra services and their launch (on 12 September).

[citation needed] The work to reopen the station was a joint operation between Pembrokeshire County Council and Network Rail.

One eastbound service terminates at Clarbeston Road, connecting with the Milford Haven to Manchester Piccadilly train, and the others continue to Carmarthen, Swansea or Cardiff Central.