Chirk railway station

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Chirk / Y Waun
Location
Place	Chirk
Local authority	Wrexham County Borough
Operations
Managed by	Arriva Trains Wales
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit 04/05	32,094 **
History
Key dates	Opened 1849
National Rail - UK railway stations
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** based on sales of tickets in 2004/05 financial year which end or originate at Chirk / Y Waun. Disclaimer (PDF)

Chirk station (Welsh: Y Waun) is a railway station serving the town of Chirk in the county borough of Wrexham, Wales. Chirk station is on the Shrewsbury to Chester Line, which is part of the former Great Western Railway mainline route from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside. All services are operated by Arriva Trains Wales including through trains to Cardiff via the Welsh Marches Line and Holyhead via the North Wales Coast Line.

A new company, the Wrexham, Shropshire and Marylebone Railway, has proposed new services to call at this station, starting from the summer of 2007.

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Chirk railway station from National Rail
• Map and aerial photo of Chirk railway station from Multimap.com

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Gobowen		Arriva Trains Wales Shrewsbury to Chester Line		Ruabon
Gobowen		Wrexham & Shropshire Proposed		Ruabon