Station Name: WYNN HALL HALT[Source: Paul Wright and Alan Young]
 Wynn Hall Halt looking north in circa 1953. The line curving off to the right was the route to Rhos (and onward to Wrexham) and the truncated route to the left had served the Wynn Hall Colliery and its route had formed part of the Pontcysyllte Tramway extension of 1809. The timber structure seen in the view may have been a waiting shelter for the halt. It is located where the halt was. This was the point that Wrexham General railmotor trains terminated. All the rails in this view look very rusty which would suggest it is in the period shortly after the line south of Pant had closed (1953).
Photo from the John Alsop collection  
Wynn Hall Halt shown on a 6-inch scale map from 1910. The line going towards the right is the route to Rhos and onwards to Wrexham General. The line going left served the Wynn Hall Colliery.
 The site of Wynn Hall Halt seen in January 1974. The two timber electricity pylons closest to the photographer can also be seen in the circa 1953 photo above. Photo by John Mann 
Looking north-east at the site of Wynn Hall Halt on 3 August 2015.
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by Paul Wright
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There was little by way of settlement in the area where the halt was located but the Wynn Hall Colliery was located close by. The halt was situated on the single track GWR Pontcysyllte Branch which had been opened by the London & North Western Railway (LNWR) in January 1867; the branch extended from the Llangollen Canal to the Llwyneinion Brick Works which lay just to the north of Rhos. Much of the branch (including the section between Pontcysyllte and Wynn Hall Colliery) had been converted from a horse-worked tramway that dated from 1805. During the late 1870s and through the 1880s the branch lost a lot of traffic as major industries closed and for that reason in 1896 the LNWR sold it to the GWR for £51,000. The GWR had aspirations to operate passenger services on part of the line and accordingly the company built the 3¾-mile Rhos Branch which connected Rhos (full name Rhosllanerchrugog) to its Shrewsbury and Chester main line at Rhos Junction (near Rhostyllen). Passenger services were introduced between Rhos and Wrexham General on 1 October 1901.
Wynn Hall Halt was located in the fork of the junction that was the point from which a new section of railway was created in 1867 linking the original course of the Pontcysyllte Tramway to the Llwyneinion Brick Works at Rhos. The halt was located on the 1867 alignment. A 6-inch scale map from 1914 shows a small structure on the west side of the line and a small hut was still present in 1953. A signal box was also provided for the introduction of the passenger service. It is known that the other halts opened on the line had platforms so it is likely that Wynn Hall Halt would have been the same. The platform was most likely to have been a simple timber structure. 
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