Acrefair railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Acrefair


caption =
locale = Acrefair
borough = Wrexham
line = Vale of Llangollen Railway
manager = Great Western Railway
owner = Great Western Railway
platforms = 2
latitude = 52.980370
longitude = -3.075743
gridref =
years = 2 June 1862
events = Station opens
years1 = 18 January 1965
events1 = Station closes

Acrefair railway station was formerly a station on the Ruabon to Barmouth line in north-east Wales. It closed to passengers on Monday 18 January 1965 as part of the Beeching Axe.

History

Although built by the Vale of Llangollen Railway, its services were operated by the Great Western Railway from the outset. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and was closed by the British Transport Commission.

The station was built at a high-level above King Street, close to its junction with Llangollen Road. Another line, a goods line from the local coalfields and clay works to Pontcysyllte, passed immediately below the station, crossing King Street at street level via a gated crossing.

The site today

The course of the line here is now an access road though a small industrial estate.

External links

Pictures and plan of the station [http://www.volr.co.uk/htm/VoLRAcrefair.html]

References

*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1
*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0