page_title: Buckley railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Buckley railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Buckley Junction Station. View southward, towards Wrexham; ex-Great Central (Wrexham, Mold &amp; Connah's Quay section), Bidston/Chester (Northgate) - Wrexham (Central) line, junction of the original line from Connah's Quay. The station was called 'Buckley Junction' until 5/74, although passenger trains ceased to run to Connah's Quay about 1895. It remains open on the present surprisingly popular Bidston - Wrexham line.
context_page_description: Buckley railway station serves the town of Buckley in Flintshire, Wales. The station is 8½ miles north of Wrexham Central on the Borderlands Line.
  The station was known as Buckley Junction until 6 May 1974, when it became Buckley. It is the nearest station to Mold, Flintshire.
context_section_description: The first railway in the area was the Buckley Railway, a short (5 mile/8 km long) freight branch linking the town with the River Dee at Connah's Quay.  The Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway arrived in 1866 from a terminus at Wrexham Exchange alongside the GWR's Wrexham General station and was linked into the Buckley Railway from the outset, eventually taking it over in 1873. Passenger services from the south began soon afterwards, but not to the current station, which dates from 1890, when the "Hawarden Loop" line northwards to Shotton was opened.
  Further construction by the Great Central Railway added links to Chester and to Bidston (the current route north) by 1896. The original Buckley Railway line down to the docks at Connah's Quay remained freight-only throughout its life, finally closing in 1965. That left the current line at the station and ran via the original Buckley (Old) station (closed in 1890, and briefly reopened between 1893–95). Few traces of that route now remain.
  The station became an unstaffed halt in 1969 and the substantial two-storey main building was subsequently sold off. It remains standing to this day and is now used as industrial premises.
caption: The station in 1961
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