Holywell Town railway station served the market town of Holywell, in Flintshire, Wales. It was the southern terminus of the Holywell branch line, which linked the town centre with the North Wales Main Line at .
History The station was opened on 1 July 1912 and closed on 6 September 1954. There was a single platform with two wooden shelters, a run round loop and extensive goods facilities. The station could be accessed by a sloping path down from a road bridge.
Service The passenger rolling stock consisted of two former picnic saloons, converted to form an auto-train.An auto train consisted of a small steam locomotive and a passenger coach with controls capable of operating the locomotive's own controls. When the driving trailer was leading, the driver operated the locomotive from a driving position in the coach.
At first, there were sixteen passenger train journeys each way on weekdays; this was increased to 29 each way before 1939.Peter E Baughan, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: volume 11: North and Mid Wales, David St John Thomas, 1991, Nairn, , pages 80 and 81 The summer 1938 Bradshaw shows 26 Monday to Friday departures up the branch, from 06:25 to 23:30. A similar number ran on Saturdays.Bradshaw's July 1938 Railway Guide, David & Charles Reprints, Newton Abbot, 1969,
The site today After closure, the station building and platform were demolished. The bridge over the site is extant, with the elevated goods yard site on the north-west side of the road. A staircase provides access from the Tesco supermarket car park.
The site is now the southern end of the Greenfield Valley, which is a tarmacked footpath that follows the length of the former branch line.
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