Cefn-y-Bedd railway station

Cefn-y-Bedd
Location
Place	Cefn-y-Bedd
Local authority	Flintshire
Grid reference	SJ310562
Operations
Station code	CYB
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	9,854
2005/06	7,646
2006/07	6,616
2007/08	7,795
2008/09	8,530
2009/10	8,492
2010/11	9,284
2011/12	8,896
2012/13	9,372
2013/14	9,388
2014/15	8,918
History
Key dates	Opened 1 May 1866[1]
Original company	Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cefn-y-Bedd from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Cefn-y-bedd railway station serves the village of Cefn-y-bedd in Flintshire, Wales. The station is 4 miles (6 km) north of Wrexham General on the Borderlands Line.

History

The station used to have a 14-lever signal box to the north of the Bidston-bound platform, and a goods yard adjacent to the western side of the station.^[2][3] The signal box was in use until 1945 and the goods yard closed on 14 May 1964.^[3][2]

Services

The station sees an hourly service on weekdays (two-hourly in the evening and on bank holidays)^[4] southbound to Wrexham Central and northbound to Bidston for connections to Liverpool via the Wirral Lines.

Sundays there are six trains (one train approximately every 2.5 hours) each way.

Gallery

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  The Bidston-bound platform.

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  An Arriva Trains Wales Class 150 arrives with a service to Wrexham.

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  An EWS Class 66 passes through the station with a freight service.

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  Class 37s at the station in 1986.

References

1. Butt 1995, p. 56.
2. Mitchell & Smith 2013, map VIII
3. Mitchell & Smith 2013, fig. 20
4. GB National Rail Timetable 19 May - 7 December 2013, Table 101

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• 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 Cefn-y-Bedd railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 53°05′56″N 3°01′52″W / 53.099°N 3.031°W