Acrefair railway station

Acrefair railway station (Welsh pronunciation: [ˌakrɛˈvɑɪr] ak-REH-vire) was a former station on the Ruabon–Barmouth line in North East Wales. It closed to passengers on 18 January 1965 as part of the Beeching Axe.

Acrefair
Location of the former station (1992)
Location
Place	Acrefair
Area	Wrexham
Coordinates	52.9795°N 3.0741°W / 52.9795; -3.0741
Grid reference	SJ27984300
Operations
Original company	Vale of Llangollen Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
History
2 June 1862[1]	Opened
2 November 1964	Closed to goods
18 January 1965[1]	Closed to passengers
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

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. The line was double track between Ruabon and Llangollen and there was a signal box at Acrefair. The Ruabon Brook Tramway, a goods line from the local coalfields and clay works to Froncysyllte, passed immediately below the station, crossing King Street at street level via a gated crossing.

According to the Official Handbook of Stations the classes of traffic being handled at this station in 1956 were G & P and there was a 3-ton crane.[2]

The site today

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

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Ruabon		Great Western Railway Ruabon Barmouth Line		Trevor

References

1. Butt 1995, p. 13.
2. 1956, Official Handbook of Stations, British Transport Commission

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Ruabon to Barmouth. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 7-12. ISBN 9781906008840. OCLC 651922152.

External links

• Pictures and plan of the station
• Station on navigable O.S. map