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Rhosneigr railway station serves the village of
Rhosneigr Rhosneigr () is a village in the south-west of Anglesey, north Wales. It is situated on the A4080 road. It is south-east of Holyhead, and is on the Anglesey Coastal Path. From the clock at the centre of the village can be seen RAF Valley an ...
on the Isle of
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, off the coast of north
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. The unstaffed
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is managed by
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, who also operate all trains that serve it.


History

The station was opened in May 1907, much later than the other Anglesey stations on the
North Wales Coast Line The North Wales Main Line ( or ; ), also known as the North Wales Coast Line (), is a major railway line in the north of Wales and Cheshire, England, running from Crewe on the West Coast Main Line to Holyhead on the Isle of Anglesey. The lin ...
. It was closed between 1 January 1917 and 1 February 1919 as an economy measure during
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. Unlike the other stations it has neither sidings or a
goods yard A goods station (also known as a goods yard or goods depot) or freight station is, in the widest sense, a railway station where, either exclusively or predominantly, goods (or freight), such as merchandise, parcels, and manufactured items, are lo ...
. The station buildings were originally made of wood but in the early 1950s they were replaced by stone structures. Of these, the structure on platform one remains whilst the one on platform two has been replaced by a metal and plastic
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-style shelter. The
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's house still stands but is a private dwelling.


Facilities

There are no ticketing facilities of any kind here, so tickets must be bought prior to travel or on the train. The station does though have digital CIS displays to provide train running information, along with a pay phone and timetable poster boards. Although there is step-free access to each side, the paths to each platform are steep and not made up, so are unsuitable for wheelchair users.


Services

There is a roughly two-hourly weekday service in each direction from the station (with some extra morning and evening trains), plus a limited Sunday service (six to Holyhead, seven toward Chester). Most eastbound trains run to Wrexham General,
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and , although a few services run to either
Crewe Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the parish had a population of 55,318 and the built-up area had a population of 74,120. ...
or
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. Trains stop on request.


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