Heritage Trust. A plaque was unveiled at the station on 19 January 2018. Network Rail was awarded the Railway Heritage Trust Conservation Award for the ‘best restored structure’ at the National Rail Heritage Awards. Facilities The station is unstaffed and has no ticket machine (as is the case for almost all stations on the line), so all tickets must be purchased on the train or in advance of travel. The main building is Grade II-listed and dates from 1857, but had been disused since the 1960s - it was restored and refurbished by Network Rail (with assistance from the Railway Heritage Trust and the local community) in 2013-14. It is provided with the standard amenities - help point, CIS screen, payphone and timetable poster board. Step-free access is available from the level crossing at the north end - this still has manually-operated metal gates rather than the automatic barriers used elsewhere on the line. Services All trains serving the station are operated by Transport for Wales, who also manage it. There are five trains a day to Shrewsbury northbound from Monday to Saturday (plus two more to ) and seven southbound to Llanelli and Swansea (the first train in each direction does not run on Saturdays); two services each way call on Sundays. Amman Valley branch The old Amman Valley branch line through Ammanford and Gwaun-cae-Gurwen which joined here to the other side of the current platform was closed in its entirety along with the yard after the closure of Abernant Colliery in 1988. The railway shed (closed 1964) and turntable are also gone, with nothing to reveal their former existence. The junction was reinstated for freight services only in 2006 as EWS requested that part of the line be reinstated to serve the opencast site at Tairgwaith Colliery. The Amman Valley Railway Society has also been attempting to reinstate the Amman Valley line as a heritage railway, although EWS plans prevent this in the short term. EWS started running coal trains to Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen in 2009. References Bibliography Body, G. (1983), PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Western Region, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, External links Amman Valley Railway Society Railway Stations - The Amman Valley Branch Line Former Great Western Railway stations Heart of Wales Line Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1841 Railway stations in Carmarthenshire DfT Category F2 stations Railway stations served by Transport for Wales