To the western side of Wrexham General station and linked

to it by a footbridge is Wrexham Exchange station. This was originally opened in 1866 as a separate station to General by the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway that was later to be absorbed by the Great Central. Interestingly it was later to become part of the LNER of all railway companies under grouping and was one of their few stations in Wales. When we visited in the summer of 1981 the station building seen here was on a platform with no track laid and thus closed but the other platform seen to the left had just been brought back into use by BR as General's platform four two months previously. Notice the Class 116 DMU standing at what I believe to be General's platform three in the background.