Colwyn Bay railway station
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| Colwyn Bay Bae Colwyn |
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| Location | |||
| Place | Colwyn Bay | ||
| Local authority | Conwy (county borough) | ||
| Operations | |||
| Station code | CWB | ||
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales | ||
| Platforms in use | 2 | ||
| Live departures and station information from National Rail | |||
| Annual Rail Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 * | 0.234 million | ||
| 2005/06 * | 0.241 million | ||
| History | |||
| Key dates | Opened October 1849 | ||
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |||
| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Colwyn Bay Bae Colwyn from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. |
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Colwyn Bay railway station (Welsh: Bae Colwyn) is on the Crewe to Holyhead North Wales Coast Line. There are frequent services to Chester via Rhyl, Prestatyn and Flint, as well as to Bangor and across Anglesey to Holyhead. There are also direct services to Cardiff, London Euston, Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly.
The current station consists of the platform faces that served the Up Slow and Up Fast lines. The platform faces to the Down Slow and Down Fast lines were taken out of service and have been obliterated as a result of the construction of the A55 [1] dual carriageway. The main station building stands on what was the island platform.
Colwyn Bay station was built by the Chester and Holyhead Railway and opened in October 1849. It is in an unusual location straddling a curved section of track. As a result the track bed is cambered so that trains come to rest at the station platform at a significant tilt. In recent years enforcement action was taken by the Environment Agency when fuel oil spilled from the over-filled tanks of a diesel engine and percolated through the track bed and flowed onto the nearby beach, polluting it.
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- Train times and station information for Colwyn Bay railway station from National Rail
