Rhyl railway station

Rhyl
265px An Arriva Trains Wales Class 175 at platform 1
Location
Place	Rhyl
Local authority	Denbighshire
Coordinates
Grid reference	SJ009811
Operations
Station code	RHL
Managed by	Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.484 million
2005/06	0.473 million
2006/07	0.529 million
2007/08	0.541 million
2008/09	0.578 million
2009/10	0.583 million
2010/11	0.609 million
2011/12	0.633 million
2012/13	0.612 million
2013/14	0.591 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1848 (1848)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Rhyl from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Rhyl railway station is on the Crewe to Holyhead North Wales Coast Line and serves the holiday resort of Rhyl, Wales.

History

The station was the junction for a branch line to Denbigh (the Vale of Clwyd Railway), but this was closed to passengers in September 1955.

Although only two platforms remain in use today, the layout was more substantial until the late 1980s. There was an additional through platform on the southern side and an east-facing bay platform (still intact although now disused) on the northern side, plus a pair of through lines and several carriage sidings. It also has two LNWR-built brick and timber signal boxes, although only the former No.1 box is now operational (the disused No.2 box at the western end remains intact, as it is a listed building).

Facilities

Ticket barriers are in operation at the station.

Services

Monday to Saturday:

• Arriva Trains Wales operates an alternate hourly service from Holyhead to Birmingham International and to Cardiff Central, both via Chester, Wrexham General and Shrewsbury.

• Arriva Trains Wales operates an hourly stopping service between Llandudno and Manchester Piccadilly via Warrington Bank Quay.

• Virgin Trains operates a number of services from Holyhead and Bangor to London Euston. Two weekday services operate between Birmingham New Street and Crewe-Bangor/Holyhead.

On Sundays, there is an hourly service each way - westbound to Holyhead and eastbound to Crewe, plus two through trains to London.

Gallery

• Rhyl railway station 2117033 633d32da.jpg

  Up express entering Rhyl in 1964

• Rhyl No.2 signal box, Rhyl railway station (geograph 4031238).jpg

  Rhyl No.2 signal box

• Footbridge, Rhyl railway station (geograph 4031286).jpg

  The station footbridge

• Platform 1, Rhyl railway station (geograph 4031304).jpg

  Platform 1

External links

• Train times and station information for Rhyl railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Prestatyn		Arriva Trains Wales North Wales Coast Line		Abergele & Pensarn
Flint		Arriva Trains Wales North-South "Premier" service		Colwyn Bay
Prestatyn		Virgin Trains WCML North Wales branch		Colwyn Bay
	Disused railways
Terminus		London and North Western Railway Vale of Clwyd Railway		Rhuddlan