Penmaenmawr railway station

Penmaenmawr National Rail

Penmaenmawr station in May 2006
Location
Place Penmaenmawr
Local authority Conwy
Coordinates 53°16′12″N 3°55′26″W / 53.270°N 3.924°W / 53.270; -3.924Coordinates: 53°16′12″N 3°55′26″W / 53.270°N 3.924°W / 53.270; -3.924
Grid reference SH718765
Operations
Station code PMW
Managed by Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05  7,516
2005/06 Increase 7,668
2006/07 Increase 9,494
2007/08 Increase 11,060
2008/09 Decrease 10,118
2009/10 Increase 11,870
2010/11 Increase 13,130
2011/12 Decrease 12,770
2012/13 Increase 13,834
2013/14 Increase 15,264
2014/15 Decrease 13,936
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Penmaenmawr from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Penmaenmawr railway station serves the small town of Penmaenmawr, Wales, and is located on the Crewe to Holyhead North Wales Coast Line. The station is a request stop.

History

Aftermath of the Penmaenmawr train crash, 1950)

The local granite quarries are a major source stone aggregate railway traffic especially for road building and railway maintenance purposes. Transfer sidings for this traffic are located next to the station and are controlled from the station signal box. This had to be relocated following a fatal accident at the station in August 1950. Six people were killed when a goods train undertaking shunting operations at the station in the early hours was inadvertently diverted onto the main line, where it collided with the fast-moving eastbound Irish Mail express from Holyhead.[1][2] The poor view afforded of the sidings from the old box was cited as one of the contributory factors to the accident.

An earlier accident occurred near Penmaenmawr on 12 January 1899 when an express freight train was derailed because a storm had washed away the trackbed. Both locomotive crew were killed.[3]

Services

There are generally two-hourly through train services on weekdays and Saturdays to Holyhead and to Chester via Colwyn Bay, Rhyl, Prestatyn and Flint. Additional trains call during the morning peak and in the late afternoon/early evening. After arrival at Chester, most trains go forward to either Birmingham International or Cardiff Central via Wrexham General, Shrewsbury and Hereford. There are also a few early morning and late evening services to Crewe.[4]

Sunday services from the station are infrequent (particularly in winter), with sizeable gaps between trains. These mainly run to/from Crewe, though there are also trains to Manchester Piccadilly, Cardiff Central and Wolverhampton in the summer months.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Penmaenmawr Train Crash 1950 Gathering the Jewels; Retrieved 2009-03-20
  2. ↑ Penmaenmawr Signal Box www.signalbox.org; Retrieved 2009-03-20
  3. ↑ Trevena, Arthur (1981). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 2. Redruth: Atlantic Books. pp. 15–16. ISBN 0-906899-03-6.
  4. ↑ GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 81 (Network Rail)
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