Hope railway station (Wales) explained

Hope (Flintshire)
Native Name:Welsh: Yr Hôb
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Hope, Flintshire, Flintshire
Country:Wales
Coordinates:53.117°N -3.037°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:Transport for Wales
Platforms:2
Code:HPE
Classification:DfT category F2
Events:Opened as Caergwrle
Years1:1 January 1899
Events1:Renamed Hope Village
Years2:6 May 1974
Events2:Renamed Hope (Clwyd)
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Hope railway station serves the village of Hope in Flintshire, Wales. The station is NaNmiles north of Wrexham Central on the Borderlands Line. The name of the station in Welsh is Yr Hôb.

History

The station was originally known as Caergwrle, with the name changing to Hope Village on 1 January 1899, to differentiate it from Caergwrle and Hope Exchange stations, with the latter being just north of Penyffordd. The station had a 17-lever signal box at the northern end of the Wrexham-bound platform, with an adjacent third through line around the outside of the platform, and a goods yard with a cattle pen and one-ton crane. The signal box was opened in 1885 and closed on 1 August 1965, and the goods yard closed on 4 May 1964. The station buildings here have been demolished since the station became unstaffed in 1969.

Facilities

Each of the two platforms has an electronic timetable (CIS screen), timetable poster board, a waiting shelter and CCTV. There is a cycle rack and lock-up on platform 1 and a payphone on platform 2. Entry to the station is by a ramp. Access to each platform is straightforward, with a pedestrian level crossing at the southern end of the platforms. However, neither platform has any seating.[1] [2]

Services

The basic off-peak service consists of one train per hour to (for connections to and via the Wirral Line), and one to . In the evenings and on bank holidays, this drops to one every second hour. There is a train every 90 minutes in each direction on Sundays.[3]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/HPE/details.html Hope (Flintshire) station facilities
  2. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4032688 "Along platform 2, Hope railway station
  3. GB eNRT May 2017 Edition, Table 101