Wrexham Central train station
You can reach 14 stations directly from Wrexham Central on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Buckley, with 5 trains a day.
See Wrexham Central on the map
Wrexham Central is the nearest station for postcodes in LL13. Check your own postcode.
- 14 direct destinations
- 1,959th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free throughout
- 500 parking spaces
- 9 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Wrexham Central
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckley | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Bidston | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Caergwrle | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Cefn-y-Bedd | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Gwersyllt | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Hope (Flintshire) | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Heswall | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Hawarden Bridge | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Hawarden | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Neston | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Penyffordd | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Shotton | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Upton | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| Wrexham General | 5 | 7 | 16 |
Lines serving Wrexham Central
Wrexham Central is on the Borderlands Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Wrexham Central station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Wrexham Central station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Wrexham Central station is
63,048 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,959th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Wrexham Central and Shotton than any other pair: 16,422 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Nearest other stations
- Wrexham General 0.3 miles
- Gwersyllt 2.0 miles
- Cefn-y-Bedd 3.9 miles
- Ruabon 4.5 miles
- Caergwrle 4.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Wrexham Central, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Hightown Halt · 0.9 miles
- Rhosddu Halt · 1.1 miles
- Gatewen Halt · 1.2 miles
- Rhostyllen · 1.4 miles
- New Broughton Road Halt · 1.5 miles
- Highfield Road Halt · 1.5 miles
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Facilities at Wrexham Central station
Wrexham Central is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.
Parking at Wrexham Central station
- Island Green Shopping Park Car Park 500 spaces, 3 accessible
Cycle parking: 8 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 19 May 2026.
Getting to Wrexham Central station
Wrexham Central station is in Wrexham - Wrecsam, Wales, and is run by TfW Rail.
The nearest motorway junction is M53 J12 (Hoole Island Junction), 12.9 miles north-east.
9 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Island Green Shopping Centre.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Wrexham Central station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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