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== Transport == [[File:Fishguard & Goodwick Train Station reopened 14-05-2012.jpg|thumb|Newly-opened station; passengers alight the train for the first time in 48 years (14 May 2012)]] [[Fishguard & Goodwick railway station]] served local rail travellers from the town, and from nearby Fishguard, until the line was effectively closed to such passengers by the reduction in service to boat trains only in 1964. After this, trains only served [[Fishguard Harbour railway station|Fishguard Harbour]] and the station fell into disrepair. Following investment from [[Network Rail]] and [[Pembrokeshire County Council]] the station has now been re-built and was reopened for passengers again, on 14 May 2012. It is served by the boat trains and the newly introduced local trains. The harbour is used by [[Stena Line]] ferries to [[Rosslare Europort]] in Ireland. In 2024, the [[MS Stena Nordica]] RoPax ferry has two sailings each way per day, one around lunch time and one in the early hours of the morning. The high-speed catamaran ferry [[Stena Lynx III]] (renamed [[HSC Elite Jet|Elite Jet]] in 2023) operated in the summer only until the end of the 2011 season. Her schedule, for instance in the 2010 season consisted of a morning departure to Rosslare and a late afternoon arrival into Fishguard Harbour. The town is served by the Fishguard town service bus, which runs alternately from Harbour Village or Stop-and-Call to [[Fishguard Town Hall]]. Two Fishguard - St Davids bus routes also pass through the town. === Early aviation === The first successful flight from Britain to Ireland was made from Goodwick's Harbour Village on 22 April [[1912 in aviation|1912]] by [[Denys Corbett Wilson]], flying a [[Bleriot XI]]. The flight lasted one hour 40 minutes, with landfall near [[Enniscorthy]], Ireland. The achievement was commemorated in Centenary Celebrations held in Fishguard and Goodwick on the weekend of 21/22 April 2012 and in a specially commissioned stage play by Derek Webb, called '100 Minutes' which was performed in Fishguard and Wexford the same week.<ref>{{cite news|work=BBC News|title=Denys Corbett Wilson's 100 minutes of aviation in 1912|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-17778126|date=21 April 2012|access-date=28 January 2020}}</ref>
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