Sealand railwey station
Sealand wis the feenal station on the umwhile Chester & Connah's Quay Railwey atween Chester Northgate and Hawarden Brig. Services also happed this station afore jyning the North Wales and Liverpool Railwey. Locatit 200 metre (660 ft) wast o the A550 neist RAF Sealand, the station wis juist afore a triangular infaw at Dee bogs whit waldit rail services frae North Wales, Liverpool and Cheshire.
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The station wis opened on 17 June 1918[1] by the Great Central Railwey for WWI militar personnel based at Sealand Camp. The station, whit wis oreeginally cawed Welsh Road Halt, haed twa adjacent side platforms.[2] It wis renamed Sealand in September 1931.
Frae this station, services frae North Wales coud aither end at Chester Northgate Station, the Chester terminus o the Cheshire Lines Committee, or conteena on the throu line tae Manchester Central. Services tae and frae Liverpool via Bidston uised the Grand Central line till jyning the Chester & Connah's Quay railwey at Dee Marsh infaw.
Passenger services blan on 9 September 1968 whan the station wis halely closed. The 20-lever seegnal box conteenad being uised till 14 September 1981.
Even thou steelmakkin operations at the Corus plant at Shotton blan in March 1980,[3] fraucht conteenad tae pass the former station on a dooble-tracked line until 20 April 1984. Guids services resumed on a single-track line on 31 August 1986 before feenal closure in the early 1990s.[4] The trackbed is now a cycle wey.