Cefn railway station

52°58′09″N 3°04′11″W / 52.9693°N 3.0697°W / 52.9693; -3.0697Grid referenceSJ281418Platforms2Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyShrewsbury, Oswestry and Chester Junction RailwayPre-groupingGreat Western RailwayPost-groupingGreat Western RailwayKey dates12 October 1848Station opens as Rhosymedre^[1]July 1849resited and named Cefn^[2]12 September 1960Closed to passengers^[1][3]

Cefn railway station was a minor railway station on the Great Western Railway's London to Birkenhead main line serving the mining village of Cefn Mawr in Wales. It opened as Rhosymedre in 1848 but was resited on an adjacent site in 1849 and named Cefn. It had an adjacent signal box but the station seems not to have handled freight traffic. The remains of the station and yard area can be seen just to the north of Cefn Viaduct (also known as Dee Viaduct). Although the station is gone the railway remains open as part of the Shrewsbury to Chester Line.

Historical services

Express trains did not call at Cefn and the station would only have been served by West Midlands & Shrewsbury to Wrexham & Chester local trains.

Neighbouring stations

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Whitehurst Halt		Great Western Railway Shrewsbury to Chester Line		Rhosymedre Halt

References

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Shrewsbury to Chester. Middleton Press. figs. 51-52. ISBN 9781906008703. OCLC 495274299.

External links

• Cefn station on navigable 1946 O.S. map