Station code PNF DfT category F2 Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference SJ295611 Managed by Arriva Trains Wales 2011/12 21,856 | |
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Similar Buckley railway station, Hope (Flintshire) railway st, Cefn‑y‑Bedd railway station, Gwersyllt railway station, Wrexham Central railway st | ||
Penyffordd railway station serves the village of Penyffordd in Flintshire, Wales. The station is 7¼ miles (12 km) north of Wrexham Central on the Borderlands Line.
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The station was renamed from Penyffordd for Leeswood to Penyffordd on 6 May 1974.
History
The station was opened in 1877 by the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway, on their 1866 line from Wrexham to Buckley. It was linked via sidings to the LNWR line from Chester to Denbigh via Mold, which passed beneath the Borderlands route a short distance to the north. The route closed to passengers in 1962, but the connection to it from the station was used for freight traffic towards Mold until 1983 to serve the Synthite factory there (the sidings still remain, but are disused - the route onwards was lifted in 1985). The station's 24-lever signal box, which opened in 1885, controlled these and a second siding link into the nearby Castle Cement factory - this latter connection is still occasionally used by trainloads of imported coal to supply the factory kilns. The current signal box was opened on 17 December 1972.
On the eastern side of the station was an adjoining goods yard which closed on 4 May 1964, and reopened on 4 October 1971 for distributing coal.
Services
The station is served by an hourly service southbound to Wrexham General and northbound to Bidston for connections to Liverpool via the Wirral Lines. This drops to a two-hourly frequency in the evenings and on bank holidays.
On Sundays there are six trains in each direction (roughly one every 2.5 hours).