Pickhill Halt railway station

53°00′56″N 2°55′11″W / 53.0155°N 2.9196°W / 53.0155; -2.9196Grid referenceSJ384468Platforms1^[1]Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyGreat Western RailwayPost-groupingGreat Western RailwayKey dates30 May 1938Opened^[2]10 June 1940Closed6 May 1946opened10 Sept. 1962closed

Pickhill Halt railway station was a station in Sesswick, Wrexham, Wales. The station was opened on 30 May 1938^[2] and closed in 1962.

The opening of the halt coincided with the building of a milk factory by Cadbury Brothers, who bought the greenfield site at auction from Mrs Randles, the 92-year old owner of the Brynafon Estate, in March 1937.^[3] The station was a single platform of wooden construction, and immediately south of the station under the adjacent road bridge was the gated siding into the factory. After the closure of the railway to passengers the line from Wrexham to Pickhill remained in use for the milk trains, while the line south of the siding was lifted. Although in 1971 the milk factory (known as Maelor Creamery) moved away from rail transport, it continued under various owners until it closed in March 2014.

References

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2010). Oswestry to Whitchurch. Middleton Press. figs. 96-97. ISBN 9781906008819. OCLC 751631667.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Sesswick Halt Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway		Bangor-on-Dee Line and station closed