Recent Developments
The station is currently undergoing a renaissance as a number of new services have been introduced. Since 2005 the station has been a stop of the two hourly Cardiff to Holyhead Arriva Trains Wales service. The two hourly Birmingham New Street service has also been extended to Birmingham International and Holyhead.
As of January 2011 the station provides direct services to London on weekdays provided by Virgin Trains (via Chester and Crewe).
Wrexham and Shropshire's operational headquarters and train depot were located in the station.
Planning permission has been granted for further development at the station, to include a new cafe and taxi rank.
It was announced in November 2008 that the Welsh Assembly Government would fund work on rail infrastructure between Wrexham and Chester; this would allow increased express services from north to south Wales on this congested section of the line. This might see the currently single track section to Saltney Junction restored to double track operation, however the results of recent studies into the improvements has revealed a double track solution would be too costly as two structures crossing the A483 road are built to single track standard, and dynamic loops are more realistic.
In June 2011, construction began on the increased access for disabled people to platform four. The existing footbridge between platforms three and four was removed in preparation for the construction of a new footbridge which includes a lift on Platform four. This will obviate the use of the road bridge for disabled access to platform four. The new bridge has been built to modern standards but in a style sympathising with the rest of the station design.
The footbridge was installed in a record 12 hours and a timelapse video was shot of the event.
Read more about this topic: Wrexham General Railway Station
Famous quotes containing the word developments:
“I don’t wanna live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.
Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization, and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.”
—C. Vann Woodward (b. 1908)