Disused railway lines and closed stations in Flintshire

48 miles of disused railway
31 closed stations
9 stations open today
14 named lost lines

Flintshire has 48 miles of disused railway and 31 closed stations, against 9 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 3.4 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway, with 9.7 miles of its route inside Flintshire.

See Flintshire’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 48 miles of lost railway in Flintshire break down as 36 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 7.0 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 4.5 miles with track still in place but no trains and 1.0 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 Flintshire

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

Line	Miles in county
Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway	9.7
Chester to Mold Line	8.6
Mold and Tryddyn Branch	6.8
Buckley Railway	3.4
Chester and Connah's Quay Curve	3.2
Buckley Branch	2.1
Darwen & Mostyn Iron Works Lines	1.6
Holywell Branch	1.5
Point of Ayr Colliery Lines	1.4
Shotton Loop	1.4
Mold to Denbigh Line	0.7
Shotton Steel Works	0.6
Dee Marsh East Junction to Dee Marsh West Junction	0.4
Dee Marsh East Junction to Dee Marsh North Junction	0.4

Closed railway stations in Flintshire

All 31 closed and former stations in Flintshire, 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 Flintshire

9 stations in Flintshire still have a train service. The busiest are Flint (333,542 a year), Shotton (276,948 a year), Buckley (44,006 a year), Hawarden (30,564 a year) and Penyffordd (28,554 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

Denbighshire, Wrexham, Merseyside and Cheshire.

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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