Disused railway lines and closed stations in Denbighshire

Denbighshire has 50 miles of disused railway and 24 closed stations, against 2 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 12.0 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Denbigh Branch, with 18 miles of its route inside Denbighshire.

See Denbighshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 50 miles of lost railway in Denbighshire break down as 47 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 2.7 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 0.8 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Denbighshire

12 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Denbighshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

LineMiles in county
Denbigh Branch18
Vale of Clwyd Railway7.9
Ruabon and Barmouth Line7.0
Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway5.2
Deeside Tramway3.0
Prestatyn and Cwm Branch2.9
Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway1.1
Ruabon and Barmouth Line (Disused)0.9
Ruthin Lime Siding0.6
Crewe North and Holyhead Line0.5
Graig Siding0.4
Quarry Tramway0.4

Closed railway stations in Denbighshire

All 24 closed and former stations in Denbighshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Denbighshire

2 stations in Denbighshire still have a train service. The busiest are Rhyl (611,984 a year) and Prestatyn (368,882 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Flintshire, Wrexham, Conwy, Merseyside, Cheshire, Gwynedd, Shropshire and Powys.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s principal area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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