Penyffordd railway station
Penyffordd | |
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Welsh: Pen-y-ffordd | |
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An Arriva Trains Wales Class 150 arrives at the station
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Location | |
Place | Penyffordd |
Local authority | Flintshire |
Grid reference | SJ295611 |
Operations | |
Station code | PNF |
Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
Number of platforms | 2 |
DfT category | F2 |
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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Annual rail passenger usage* | |
2004/05 | 18,234 |
2005/06 | 18,754 |
2006/07 | 16,910 |
2007/08 | 14,980 |
2008/09 | 16,632 |
2009/10 | 18,700 |
2010/11 | 21,082 |
2011/12 | 21,856 |
2012/13 | 21,212 |
2013/14 | 22,156 |
History | |
1877 | Opened |
National Rail – UK railway stations | |
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Penyffordd from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
UK Railways portal |
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.
The station was renamed from Penyffordd for Leeswood to Penyffordd on 6 May 1974.[1]
History
The station was opened in 1877 [2] 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.[3] 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[4] (the sidings still remain, but are disused - the route onwards was lifted in 1985) . The station signal box 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.
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.[5]
On Sundays there are six trains in each direction (roughly one every 2.5 hours).
Gallery
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Along platform 1, Pen-y-ffordd railway station (geograph 4032568).jpg
Along platform 1
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Waiting shelter, Pen-y-ffordd railway station (geograph 4032555).jpg
One of the waiting shelters
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Signal box, Pen-y-ffordd railway station (geograph 4032578).jpg
The signal box
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Southern end of Pen-y-ffordd railway station (geograph 4032626).jpg
The line towards Wrexham
References
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- ↑ Connections Between the WM&CQR and LNWR at Hope www.disused-stations.org.uk; Retrieved 2013-08-05
- ↑ The Borderlands Line - Route Guide www.penmorfa.com; Retrieved 2013-08-05
- ↑ Disused Stations - Mold www.disused-stations.org; Retrieved 2013-08-05
- ↑ GB National Rail Timetable 2013, Table 101
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Penyffordd railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Penyffordd railway station from National Rail
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Hope | Arriva Trains Wales Borderlands Line |
Buckley |
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