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Hope, Flintshire Hope ( cy, Yr Hôb) is a small village and community in Flintshire, north-east Wales. The village is located approximately 3 miles / 4.5 km from the Wales-England border, on the course of the River Alyn, and less than 5 miles from Wrexham. ...

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, Wales. The station is north of Wrexham Central on the Borderlands Line. The name of the station in Welsh is ''Yr Hob''.

History

The station was originally known as ''Caergwrle'', with the name changing to ''Hope Village'' on 1 January 1899, to differentiate it from

Caergwrle Caergwrle () is a village in the county of Flintshire, in north east Wales. Approximately from Wrexham and situated on the A541 road, it is contiguous with the villages of Abermorddu and Hope, though in parts Caergwrle and Hope are separated b ...

and Hope Exchange stations, with the latter being just north of

Penyffordd Penyffordd is a village, community and electoral ward in Flintshire, Wales, situated to the south east of Buckley and to the west of Chester. The name is derived from the Welsh ''Pen Y Ffordd'' – roughly translated as "the highest or furthe ...

. 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.

Services

The basic off-peak service consists of one train per hour to (for connections to and via the

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), 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.GB eNRT May 2017 Edition, Table 101

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{{Flintshire railway stations Railway stations in Flintshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Central Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866 Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail 1866 establishments in Wales