Classic route
Borderlands Line
Wrexham → Bidston · Wales · England
- Distance
- 44 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 5 min
- Average speed
- 41 km/h
- Top speed
- 96 km/h
- Operator
- Transport for Wales
- Train
- TfW Class 230 D-Train · 197
- Countries
- Wales, England
- In service since
- 1896
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Wrexham to the Wirral: 1860s Wrexham, Mold and Connah’s Quay metals joined to the 1896 North Wales and Liverpool line, crossing the Dee on the Hawarden swing bridge and running on to Bidston for Liverpool.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2175804 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of (Zug-Nr. 39552)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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