A memorial sculpture to Goodwick Station's famous cat was unveiled on Saturday, a fitting tribute to a champion rat catcher and memorable moggy.

The fabled feline lived at the station in the years following World War One. She slept in the signal box and was devoted to station guard Peter Williams, of Seagull Cottage, who she visited when the signal box was closed.

She was credited with keeping the station rat free, seconded to Mathry station, and was praised in the Great Western Railway magazine on more than one occasion.

Her tail was docked in an accident with the North Mail train and it was only timely first aid that saved her life. Following her death in 1930 she was buried under the railway bridge, where a grave was maintained for decades.

When Fishguard and Goodwick station was reopened in 2012 the North Pembrokeshire Transport Forum began to receive calls for a new memorial to the marvellous mouser.

Last year the forum installed a replica memorial to the station cat and commissioned local sculptor, Darren Yeadon, to make a sculpture to go with the commemorative plaque.

The cat sculpture, made of local Preseli bluestone, has been installed below the memorial plaque and was publicly unveiled at Fishguard and Goodwick Station last Saturday, January 14.

Forum secretary, Hattie Woakes, paid tribute to all those who had worked so tirelessly to reinvigorate the formerly derelict station and increase train services to the area; those who are now maintaining the station and the new services and the late Ken Williams, who provided a tremendous amount of background information about the station cat.

Unveiling the sculpture she said:

"She may not know it, but she will serve not only as a poignant reminder of the past when this station and railway line bustled with activity; but joyfully now as a witness to the superb restoration of the old station and the provision of additional train services that have been so enthusiastically welcomed by both locals and visitors."