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Holywell Town railway station

Holywell Town railway station served the market town of Holywell, in Flintshire, Wales. It was the southern terminus of the Holywell branch line, which linked the town centre with the North Wales Main Line at .

History

The station was opened on 1 July 1912 and closed on 6 September 1954. There was a single platform with two wooden shelters, a run round loop and extensive goods facilities. The station could be accessed by a sloping path down from a road bridge.

Service

The passenger rolling stock consisted of two former picnic saloons, converted to form an auto-train.

At first, there were sixteen passenger train journeys each way on weekdays; this was increased to 29 each way before 1939. The summer 1938 Bradshaw shows 26 Monday to Friday departures up the branch, from 06:25 to 23:30. A similar number ran on Saturdays.

The site today

After closure, the station building and platform were demolished. The bridge over the site is extant, with the elevated goods yard site on the north-west side of the road. A staircase provides access from the Tesco supermarket car park.

The site is now the southern end of the Greenfield Valley, which is a tarmacked footpath that follows the length of the former branch line.

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