Hawarden railway station

Hawarden
Welsh: Penarlâg
A Class 150 DMU arrives at Hawarden with a service to Bidston
Location
Place	Hawarden
Local authority	Flintshire
Grid reference	SJ311658
Operations
Station code	HWD
Managed by	Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	29,159
2005/06	29,986
2006/07	30,987
2007/08	30,407
2008/09	36,960
2009/10	38,066
2010/11	37,896
2011/12	39,138
2012/13	38,156
2013/14	39,932
2014/15	36,422
History
31 March 1890	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hawarden from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Hawarden railway station serves the village of Hawarden in Flintshire, Wales. It is situated on the Borderlands Line 10½ miles (17 km) north of Wrexham Central and all passenger services are operated by Arriva Trains Wales. The station is unstaffed.

History

The station is located on the "Hawarden Loop" section of the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway and was opened with the line in 1890. It is close to the summit of a steep bank from Shotton, with a ruling gradient of 1 in 53.^[1] The station had a goods yard, which closed on 4 May 1964.^[2][3] From 1890 until 2 November 1979, situated at the southern end of the Wrexham-bound platform, a 20-lever signal box was in use.^[2][3]

Services

Services operate every hour each way (Monday to Saturday daytime) between Wrexham Central and Bidston. On weekday evenings & bank holidays, the frequency drops to two-hourly and on Sundays there are six departures each way.^[4]

Passengers can change at Bidston for Liverpool, Shotton for North Wales, Chester, and Manchester Piccadilly and at Wrexham General for Shrewsbury, Birmingham New Street, Hereford and South Wales.

Gallery

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  The station platforms and footbridge.
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  One of the two decorated waiting shelters.
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  Disused sections of platform at the northern end of the station, viewed from the footbridge.
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  Inside the waiting shelter on the Bidston-bound platform.

References

1. The Borderlands Line - Harwarden & Buckley www.penmorfa.com; Retrieved 2013-08-05
2. Mitchell & Smith 2013, map XIX
3. Mitchell & Smith 2013, fig. 48
4. GB National Rail Timetable 15 May to 11 December 2016, Table 101

Sources

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2013). Wrexham to New Brighton. West Sussex: Middleton Press. ISBN 9781908174475. OCLC 859543196.

External links

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

Coordinates: 53°11′06″N 3°01′55″W / 53.185°N 3.032°W