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06 December 2011

Rail Usage on the Up in Wrexham

Rail Passenger numbers in Wrexham County Borough continue to rise.

There are five stations in the County Borough, Wrexham General, Wrexham Central, Gwersyllt, Ruabon and Chirk and data from the Office of the Rail Regulator shows that all of them have shown an increase in rail journeys by an average of 49% since 2005. At Ruabon where a bus rail interchange was created the passenger increase has been an impressive 79%.

Cllr David Bithell, Lead Member for Environment and Transport and member of the TAITH board said,

"This is really good news and shows there is a real need to ensure our railways meet the needs and expectations of the passengers. As a council we have invested together with the Regional Transport Consortia TAITH in improving our stations and facilities. Wrexham Council have been pressing for some considerable time for improvements in the customer information on Borderlands line and it is pleasing to see that all stations now have the latest real time customer information screens."

In the last year car park extensions at Wrexham General, Chirk and Ruabon have been completed and work on extending the CCTV coverage at Chirk Station car park and Wrexham General Station will also be undertaken in the next few months together with a full CCTV system for Ruabon station. Work is currently taking place at Wrexham General Station to provide lift access to platform 4, the Borderlands Line to Liverpool, through the National Stations Improvement Programme at a cost of £1.5m’.

Councillor Bithell added, over £2.3m has been invested in Wrexham stations during the last 5 years on improving facilities for passengers. Rail is an important part of our transport strategy and the improvements are part of a long term plan to ensure passenger needs are met’.

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