Broughton railway station (; also proposed as Broughton Parkway; cy, Parcffordd Brychdyn) is a proposed

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on the North Wales Coast line, situated north of

Broughton, Flintshire Broughton ( cy, Brychdyn) is a large village in Flintshire, Wales, close to the Wales–England border, located to the west of the city of Chester, England, in the community of Broughton and Bretton. Along with the nearby village of Bretton, ...

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. Recent proposals for the station use a site north of

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's West factory site and

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, where the B5129 crosses the North Wales Coast line. Older proposals for the station include using the old sites of the former Sandycroft and Saltney Ferry railway stations. Broughton forms part of

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' 2029 goals for the

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History

In November 2013, during a Westminster parliamentary debate,

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, MP for Alyn and Deeside said there was a case to be made of having railway stations at the

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factory in Broughton, and at

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industrial park. Later in 2015, a station, provisionally named "Broughton", was included in the

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's National Transport Finance Plan 2015, published in July 2015. In which five stations were shortlisted in

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for consideration by the government. However, when another assessment of new stations occurred in May 2017, the station was the only one of the five in North Wales, to be dropped off the list. As rail infrastructure is not devolved in Wales, funding for the construction of a new railway station lies with the

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's Department for Transport (DfT) and is delivered by

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. DfT would receive advice from Network Rail on the feasibility of the station. In 2017, Flintshire County Council's Local Development Plan for Deeside, termed "The Deeside Plan" was developed. The plan included the aspiration for a new station known as "Broughton Parkway" to be set up between Shotton Low Level and Chester railway stations, with the station serving the industries and residences of Broughton. In 2021, the proposed station re-emerged in Transport for Wales' Metro Development Plan published in March 2021, and the Future Developments plan for the North Wales Metro published in September 2021. The accompanying maps for the latter, used to represent Transport for Wales' ambitions in the region up to 2029, include a proposed station located between and Chester railway stations, termed "Broughton". The map describes the proposals visually represented to be "Emerging priorities to 2029" for the North Wales Metro.

Proposed location

There is no definitive location for the station selected by Transport for Wales . As part of the local council's plan for the

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to Broughton/

Enterprise Zone Cycleway in 2018,

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listed three potential sites for a Broughton railway station. The three proposed sites were: * On site of the former Sandycroft railway station, in Sandycroft, Flintshire * New station north of

's West Factory in Broughton * On site of the former

Saltney Ferry railway station Saltney Ferry (Mold Junction) railway station was located on the western edge of the village of Saltney, Flintshire (now effectively a suburb of Chester). History Opened 1 June 1891 by the London and North Western Railway, it was served by w ...

, in

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, Flintshire Visual maps, later published in September 2021, by Transport for Wales, show a proposed station fitting the central location of the proposed site north of Airbus' factory, although no confirmation of station site has been made.

References

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