Sir,

July 30, 2013, will mark the 150th anniversary of the first passenger train service between Tenby and Pembroke.

The arrival of the railway, particularly a few years later when the link to the Great Western Railway at Whitland was completed, changed South Pembrokeshire for ever, providing for the first time a fast, reliable link between the area and the world beyond, and sparking the development of Tenby, in particular, as a modern seaside resort.

It will, perhaps, be too ambitious to expect to replicate the mass excitement that marked this event at the time, but it is surely a landmark worth celebrating.

It would be interesting to know if the councils and other organisations along the route, plus the train operating companies, have plans to mark the occasion.

Lawrence Hourahane,

Tenby.