Place Buckley Station code BCK DfT category F2 Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference SJ295633 Managed by Arriva Trains Wales 2011/12 52,404 | |
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Address Buckley CH7 3AY, United Kingdom Similar Penyffordd railway station, Hawarden railway station, Hawarden Bridge railway st, Bidston railway station, Neston railway station | ||
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Buckley railway station serves the town of Buckley in Flintshire, Wales.
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- Half an hour at 120 buckley railway station 1 7 2015 class 66 158 mold chester
- History
- Services
- References
The station is 8½ miles (14 km) north of Wrexham Central on the Borderlands Line.
The station was known as Buckley Junction until 6 May 1974, when it became Buckley. It is the nearest station to Mold, Flintshire.
History
The first railway in the area was the Buckley Railway, a short (5 mile/8 km long) freight branch linking the town with the River Dee at Connah's Quay. The Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway arrived in 1866 from a terminus at Wrexham Exchange alongside the GWR's Wrexham General station and was linked into the Buckley Railway from the outset, eventually taking it over in 1873. Passenger services from the south began soon afterwards, but not to the current station - this dates from 1890, when the "Hawarden Loop" line northwards to Shotton was opened. Further construction by the Great Central Railway added links to Chester and to Bidston (the current route north) by 1896. The original Buckley Railway line down to the docks at Connah's Quay remained freight-only throughout its life, finally closing in 1965. This left the current line at the station and ran via the original Buckley (Old) station (closed in 1890, but briefly reopened between 1893–95). Few traces of this route now remain.
Services
The station is served by an hourly service Monday - Saturday (two-hourly in the evenings & bank holidays) southbound to Wrexham Central and northbound to Bidston for connections to Liverpool via the Wirral Line. Connections to Shrewsbury, Cardiff and Birmingham (and beyond) are available at Wrexham General and for the North Wales Coast line at Shotton. On Sundays, there are six trains in each direction (approximately one every 2.5 hours).