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Explained: More details of test station proposed to replace "poorly used" calling point


03/06/2025 in News

Transport for Wales 230010 arrives at Hawarden Bridge station on May 29 with the 1236 Bidston-Wrexham General. The Welsh Government is proposing to close it and open a test station nearby which would serve Deeside Industrial Park as part of its Network North Wales project. CHRIS HOWE.

A proposed test station on the Wrexham-Bidston line would replace an existing calling point that is “very poorly used”.




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  • Dr P. N. Jarvis - 04/06/2025 16:32

    We all know railways that whistle through populous places where traffic is to be had, yet the stations are ill-sited. A flexible approach to building stations, and quicker ways of building them, may seem appropriate. For example, a station platform was moved from Fenny Stratford to Bedford St Johns some years since, and now it is proposed to rebuild both. How sensible.

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