Notes: Brymbo Station was situated on the Wrexham and Minera Railway (W&MR) which had opened from Croes Newydd near Wrexham, which was on the Great Western Railway’s (GWR) Chester to Shrewsbury line, to Brymbo on the 22nd May1866. On the 11th June in that year the line was amalgamated jointly into the GWR and the London & North Western Railway (LNWR) as the Wrexham & Minera Joint Railway (W&MJR).
From Brymbo a line went west to Minera and this line ended up as a solely GWR owned route. The main reason why railway companies wanted to reach Brymbo and Minera was because of the mines and local industries. The movement of freight was the prime concern.
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On the 24th May 1882 the GWR started a passenger service that ran between Wrexham and Brymbo and it was on this date that Brymbo Station opened. The station was located to the south of the village. As the line running through the station was double track it was provided with two brick edged platforms. On the southbound (Wrexham direction) platform a large |
single storey wooden building was provided. A footbridge gave access to the northbound platform on which there was neither a building nor a shelter.
On the 15th November 1897 the passenger service was extended beyond Brymbo to Coed Poeth.
On the 2nd of May 1898 the LNWR started a service which linked Brymbo to Mold via a line that had opened to goods services in 1872. The service consisted of four trains per day to Mold and four return workings. The trains from Mold came into Brymbo from the north where the Mold line joined the route from Minera to Wrexham. It may have seemed logical for these services to have continued on to Wrexham but the GWR did not want to give the LNWR access to the town.
Rail Motor Cars of ‘One Class Only' began running along the line on the 20th March 1905 and to cater for these additional halts were opened including one at Brymbo West which was far more convenient for the village centre. The final extension of passenger service via Vicarage Crossing to Berwig Halt took place on the 1st of May 1905.
The summer timetable of the GWR in 1905 showed a service of six daily railmotors from Wrexham to Berwig, augmented by three to Coed Poeth on weekdays. The service was intensified to fifteen workings on Saturdays.
| By 1919 the Mold service had been increased to five trains per day in each direction. However by the 1920s the service to Wrexham was suffering from intense competition from Motor Buses which were proving to be most convenient for people travelling between the local villages and Wrexham. The buses had a major effect on ticket receipts. The Wrexham service was cut |
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back from Berwig from the January 1926 and after that date just operated between Wrexham and Coed Poerth.
The GWR completely withdrew the service between Wrexham General and Coed Poerth on the 1st January 1931. The line was mostly used by goods services so the GWR had very little interest in sustaining the passenger service. They closed all of the stations on the line except for Brymbo. The station had to remain open to serve the LNWR service from Mold. As the GWR operated no passenger trains from Brymbo after 1931 they had little interest in maintaining it in good order. It took on an increasingly neglected air.
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During the Second World War the Mold service was reduced to only two trains per day in each direction. After the war the service remained at two trains that ran in the morning and late afternoon only. The trains were laid on primarily to serve local children who attended Mold Grammar School. From January 1st 1948 Brymbo became part of the Nationalised British |
Railways (London Midland Region). On the 27th March 1950 British Railway's withdrew the remaining passenger trains from the Mold and Brymbo line and Brymbo closed as a passenger station. The station building was demolished but the platforms remained. The line to Mold was lifted between Brymbo and Coed Talon shortly after passenger services ended.
The line through the station remained open as a large steelworks had been developed at Brymbo. Brymbo station remained open for goods traffic until 2nd November 1964 with a private siding remaining in use after that date. Trains continued to operate through Brymbo Station until the 1st October 1982. The track was lifted shortly afterwards. The station platforms were demolished in the early 1990s.
Tickets from Michael Stewart
Source – Railway World, February 1987 by Rex Christiansen.& Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies by Christopher Awdry
To see other stations on the Brymbo - Mold line click on the station name:
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