Disused railway lines and closed stations in Wrexham

61 miles of disused railway
44 closed stations
5 stations open today
23 named lost lines

Wrexham has 61 miles of disused railway and 44 closed stations, against 5 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 8.8 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway, with 9.8 miles of its route inside Wrexham.

See Wrexham’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 61 miles of lost railway in Wrexham break down as 43 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable and 18 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left. 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 Wrexham

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

Line	Miles in county
Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway	9.8
Wrexham and Minera Line	6.5
Whitchurch & Aberystwyth	4.3
Pontcysyllte Branch	3.8
Rhos Branch	3.2
Glyn Valley Tramway	3.0
Ponciau Branch	2.7
Moss Valley Branch	2.4
Brymbo Branch	2.2
Ruabon and Barmouth Line	1.9
Plas Madoc Branch	1.6
Mold and Tryddyn Branch	1.4
North Wales Mineral Railway	1.4
Black Park Branch	1.3
Westminster Colliery Branch	1.1
Ffrwd Branch	0.7
Pant Brick Works Sidings	0.7
Pen-y-bont Brick and Tiles Works	0.6
Bryn Yr Owen Branch	0.5
Ffos Y Go Colliery Branch	0.5
Fron Branch	0.5
Gwersyllt Colliery	0.5
Plas Power Colliery Branch	0.4

Closed railway stations in Wrexham

All 44 closed and former stations in Wrexham, 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 Wrexham

5 stations in Wrexham still have a train service. The busiest are Wrexham General (684,566 a year), Ruabon (117,454 a year), Chirk (106,900 a year), Wrexham Central (63,048 a year) and Gwersyllt (29,408 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, Flintshire, Cheshire, 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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