Holyhead
Location type
Major stationName and dates
HolyheadStation code: HHD National Rail
Where: Isle of Anglesey, Wales
Opened on the Chester and Holyhead Railway.
| Nearby stations Holyhead [2nd] Holyhead [1st] Valley Rhosneigr Ty Croes Llanerchymedd Rhosgoch Bodorgan Llangwyllog Llangefni [2nd] Amlwch Llangefni [1st] Holland Arms Ceint Rhyd-y-Saint | Holyhead Fish Dock Aluminium Works Mottershead & Hayes Shipyard Wylfa Powerstation Rhosgoch Oil Depot Bodorgan Tunnel No 2 Bodorgan Tunnel No 1 Copper Pits Pary^s Mine Chemical Works Carnarvon Tunnel Carnarvon No 1 Junction Llanberis Junction Tourist/other Reservoir Caernarfon Castle |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1859 | Chester and Holyhead Railway
North Wall Extension (Midland Great Western Railway) London and North Western Railway steamers from Holyhead serve Dublin North Wall, where the LNWR opens a Dublin North Wall [LNWR] station and sidings connected to the Midland Great Western Railway line, the station located just east of Dublin North Wall Goods [MGWR]. |
| / /1884 | City of Dublin Junction Railways Act passed to connect the Dublin and Kingstown Railway to other railways in Dublin (the 'Loop Line'). (Previously opposed by the London and North Western Railway for fear of loss of traffic from the Holyhead to Dublin North Wall route.) |
| / /1901 | International Engineering Congress, Glasgow Three tunnel routes considered from Scotland/Wales to Ireland: Mull of Kintyre to Antrim (revival of the 1868 proposal, rejected due to remoteness of Kintyre), Holyhead to Howth (rejected due to length), Wigtownshire to Larne/Donaghadee (passing north round the deep trench of the Beaufort's Dyke). Latter considered most suitable with a route from north of Portpatrick to Whitehead. |
| / /1909 | London and North Western Railway Many Holyhead services relocated from Dublin North Wall [LNWR] to Dun Laoghaire. |
| / /1926 | Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway Passenger steamers from Holyhead withdrawn. Traffic patterns were impacted by the 1921 Partition. |
| 29/12/1951 | Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway Last steamer from Holyhead. |
