Holywell Town Railway Station
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.
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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St Winefride's Halt Line and station closed |
London and North Western Railway Holywell Branch Line |
Terminus |
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.
Notes
- ^ An auto train consisted of a small steam locomotive and a passenger coach with controls capable of operating the locomotive's own controls. When the driving trailer was leading, the driver operated the locomotive from a driving position in the coach.
References
- ^ Wright, Paul; Young, Alan. "Station Name: Holywell Town". Disused Stations. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- ^ Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 231. OCLC 931112387.
- ^ Peter E Baughan, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: volume 11: North and Mid Wales, David St John Thomas, 1991, Nairn, ISBN 0946537 59 3, pages 80 and 81
- ^ Bradshaw's July 1938 Railway Guide, David & Charles Reprints, Newton Abbot, 1969, ISBN 0 7153 4686 5
- ^ "Walks and wildlife at Greenfield Valley". Greenfieldvalley.com. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
Further reading
- Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2011). Chester to Rhyl. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 103-110. ISBN 9781906008932. OCLC 795178960.