Sealand Rifle Range Halt railway station served RAF Sealand in

Sealand, Flintshire Sealand (Welsh: Gwlad-y-Môr) is a community in Flintshire and electoral ward, north-east Wales, on the edge of the Wirral peninsula. It is west of the city of Chester, England, and is part of the Deeside conurbation on the Wales-England borde ...

, Wales, from 1923 to 1954 on the Borderlands line.

History

The station was opened in June 1923 by the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

. It was situated to the east of the RAF base. It had no other amenities besides platforms. Nothing was timetabled to stop there originally but it was shown in a 1947 timetable, showing that it was for military use only. The station closed on 14 June 1954. Nothing survived by the 1960s.

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Disused railway stations in Flintshire Former London and North Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1923 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1954 1923 establishments in Wales 1954 disestablishments in Wales {{Wales-railstation-stub