Hope / Yr Hob (HPE)

Hope / Yr Hob is a stop on the Borderlands Line in Flintshire between Caergwrle and Penyfford.

Transport for Wales 150 217 leaves Hope

Information
Type:	National Rail (Borderlands Line)
Station code:	HPE
Opened:	1866
Platforms:	2

The station was opened in 1866 as Caergwrle but was changed to Hope Village in 1899 [1]. The station had a small goods yard and cattle dock which were closed in the mid-1960s. The station was renamed to Hope in 1974. The original station buildings have now gone, to be replaced by bus shelter type accommodation. Access between the platforms is via a road that passes underneath the railway just past the Wrexham end of the platforms.

The station is managed by Transport for Wales who serve the station with an hourly service in both direction most days between Wrexham Central and Bidston.

View down the platform, a shelter is visible

Another platform view, facilities are basic

This way to the platforms

Bi-lingual station sign

TfW 150 217 arrives at Hope

[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Wrexham to New Brighton (Middleton Press, 2013) Map. XII

Cefn-y-Bedd (CYB)

Cefn-y-Bedd is a stop on the Borderlands Line in Flintshire between Gwersyllt and Caergwrle.

Transport for Wales 230 008 departs for Bidston

Information
Type:	National Rail (Borderlands Line)
Station code:	CYB
Opened:	1866
Platforms:	2

The station was opened by the Wrexham, Mold & Connah's Quay Railway in 1866, later part of the Great Central Railway. The station used to have a goods yard to the west and signal box to the north but both were closed by the 1960s. Staffing also disappeared in 1969.

The station has two brick shelters, the former station building being a private residence. Access between the platforms is via a barrow crossing at the north end of the platforms. The station is managed by Transport for Wales, it is served with a service between Wrexham Central and Bidston up to once an hour in each direction.

Station aproach, the former station building is ahead

Brick shelter

Brick shelter and former station building

Barrow crossing

TfW 230 009 arrives with a Wrexham bound service

St Winefride's Halt

St Winefride's Halt was the intermediate stop on the Holywell Branch Line in Flintshire between Holywell Junction and Holywell Town. 

Information
Type:	National Rail (Holywell Branch Line)
Opened:	1912
Closed:	1954
Platforms:	1

The station was opened by the London & North Western Railway in 1912 along with the rest of the branch. The station was situated near to a famous well and also some mills. The station consisted of a single curved wooden platform. There was also a siding for goods.

Despite being popular with passengers and busy at times during the LMS years the Holywell Branch, including St Winefride's Halt, was closed in 1954.

St Winefride's Halt at opening [1]

[1] "Opening a new branch of the L & NW Railway", Railway Times (July 6 1912) p. 13

Holywell Town

Holywell Town was the terminus of the short (nearly three kilometre long) branch line from Holywell Junction.

Information
Type:	National Rail (Holywell Branch Line)
Opened:	1912
Closed:	1954
Platforms:	1

Holywell Junction, which opened in 1848, was not that close to the town so the London & North Western Railway opened a branch line in 1912 that ran up a one in twenty-seven gradient to Holywell. The line followed much of the route of the Holywell Railway Company [1] line from Holywell Junction to industries North of Holywell though the Holywell Railway had never managed to get the line to Holywell itself. The station had a single platform with wooden shelters but also had goods facilities and a run-round loop.

Although custom on the line was reasonable the station the line was closed in 1954 following a decline in service during and after the Second World War. Holywell Junction was also closed in the following decade.

LNWR officials at the opening of the station [1]

Holywell Town [1]

[1] "Opening of a branch line of the L and NW Railway", Railway Times (July 6 1912) p. 13