Sandycroft railway station was located on the eastern edge of the village of Sandycroft, Flintshire.
History Opened on 1 March 1884 by the London and North Western Railway, it was served by what is now the North Wales Coast Line between Chester, Cheshire and Holyhead, Anglesey. The station was located in Deeside, in North West Wales.
It had two platforms made of wood, upon which were only very basic wooden waiting facilities, and a single storey brick booking office.A description of the station on the village website The two platforms were connected by a footbridge and there was a signalbox positioned between the middle two of the four tracks.
In 1896 the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward Benson died at Hawarden Castle and his body was put on the train at Sandycroft to be returned to London.An article about the Archbishop's death on the Flintshire website The station closed on 1 May 1961,Jones, Mark: Lost Railways of North Wales, page 29. Countryside Books, 2008 although a private siding remained in use for some time after, and the 1980s the number of tracks running through the abandoned site were reduced down to two. The signal box was taken out of use and demolished in 2005A copy of the closure notice on signallingnotices.org.uk and there are no structures or platforms on the site left to be seen.
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