The Railway

From Dyserth.com archives

Quoted from a Festival of Wales brochure, 1958

“About 1900 a branch line for goods and passengers was opened from Prestatyn to Dyserth, originally planned to continue to Trelawnyd, but it was discontinued for passenger traffic in 1930 and no longer does the “motor-train” (similar in appearance to a modern Diesel train), bring its quota of summer visitors.

The “train-bach” would wait for late passengers and even stop between stations to pick up people as they scampered across fields. It was a truly rural railway.

Once daily, coal, cement and loads of feeding stuffs and fertilizers are still brought in by goods train, returning with Lime Works products and drums of hydrated lime for export.

Thousands of tons of limestone are taken yearly by 10-ton diesel lorries to the Flintshire and Lancashire Steel and Iron Works.”

In fact the railway opened for freight on 1st September 1869.

After calls for a passenger service – a petition in 1896 received between three and four thousand signatures - the first regular passenger “Railmotor” service commenced on Monday 28th August 1905. The passenger service was withdrawn in 1930. - PJR