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Whitehurst Halt was a small railway station located on the Shrewsbury to Chester Line about a mile and a half north of Chirk in Wales, immediately on the north side of the 46-yard Whitehurst Tunnel. It was opened by the Great Western Railway as Llangollen Road Halt and the name was changed on 1 May 1906.[4]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Chirk		Great Western Railway Shrewsbury to Chester Line		Cefn

Whitehurst Halt
General information
Location	Whitehurst, Wrexham Wales
Coordinates	52.9537°N 3.0633°W / 52.9537; -3.0633
Grid reference	SJ285401
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Shrewsbury, Oswestry and Chester Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
12 October 1848	Opened as Llangollen Road
1 July 1862	Closed[1]
1 October 1905	Reopened as Llangollen Road Halt
1 May 1906	Renamed Whitehurst Halt
12 September 1960	Closed [2][3]

References

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Shrewsbury to Chester. Middleton Press. figs. 48-49. ISBN 9781906008703. OCLC 495274299.

External links

• Whitehurst Halt on navigable 1946 O.S. map

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