page_title: Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway
caption_attribution_description: English: System map of the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway, United Kingdom, in 1866
context_page_description: The Buckley Railway was opened from Buckley to a connection with the Chester to Holyhead main line in 7/6/62, to convey coal and finished brickworks products from the Buckley area. Numerous short tramroads had existed in the area fron the 1700s. The line was steeply graded and sharply curved.
  The Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway was incorporated in 1862 to build a line from Wrexham to Buckley, continuing to the C&HR main line via the Buckley Railway, which it joined at Ashton's Branch Junction. It later bought the Buckley Railway. The WM&CQR had plans for extensions but was unable to raise money to bring all of them into being. Short branches to mineral workings around Brymbo were opened.
  The WM&CQR allied itself with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway which provided the finance to cross the River Dee and connect to Chester and its own system over the Cheshire Lines Committee tracks.
  The WM&CQR was dependent on the mineral workings, and when they declined so did the railway; but the main line from Wrexham to Hawarden Bridge remains open to passenger and freight traffic.
context_section_description: The Buckley Railway was opened from Buckley to a connection with the Chester to Holyhead main line in 7/6/62, to convey coal and finished brickworks products from the Buckley area. Numerous short tramroads had existed in the area fron the 1700s. The line was steeply graded (1 in 28  between Northop Hall and Connah's Quay) and sharply curved.
  The Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway (WM&CQR) was incorporated in 1862 to build a line from Wrexham to Buckley, continuing to the C&HR main line via the Buckley Railway, which it joined at Ashton's Branch Junction. It later bought the Buckley Railway. The WM&CQR had plans for extensions but was unable to raise money to bring all of them into being. Short branches to mineral workings around Brymbo were opened.
  The WM&CQR allied itself with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (later the Great Central Railway) which provided the finance to cross the River Dee and connect to Chester and its own system over the Cheshire Lines Committee tracks.
  The WM&CQR was dependent on the mineral workings, and when they declined so did the railway; but the main line from Wrexham to Hawarden Bridge (and on to Bidston) remains open to passenger and freight traffic.
caption: The Wrexham, Mold and Connah’s Quay Railway
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