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Rhostyllen railway station

Rhostyllen railway station

Former railway station in Wrexham, Wales

Rhostyllen (pronounced [r̥ɔsˈtəɬən], Ross-tuth-l'n) was a minor railway station of the Great Western Railway, located on the Rhos Branch just off the Shrewsbury to Chester Line a couple of miles south of Wrexham in Wales. Rhostyllen was a mining area and the rail-served Bersham Colliery was just to the south.

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According to the Official Handbook of Stations the following classes of traffic were being handled at this station in 1956: G & P† and there was no crane. It is curious that parcels and miscellaneous traffic was still being handled here at that date, twenty five years after the station had closed to passengers.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Disused Stations: Rhostyllen". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  2. [2]
    Clinker, C.R., (1978) Clinker’s Register of Closed Stations, Avon Anglia ISBN 0-905466-19-5
  3. [3]
    1956, Official Handbook of Stations, British Transport Commission

Neighbouring stations

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53.0336°N 3.0266°W / 53.0336; -3.0266


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