Flint railway station
The station building at Flint is a fine surviving example of the architecture of Francis Thompson. He was contracted by the Chester & Holyhead Railway to work alongside the renowned engineer Robert Stephenson. The pair had previously collaborated on the North Midland Railway, where Thompson’s works included the opulent Midland Hotel in Derby.
Aerial photo of showing Flint station and goods yard in 1920,
courtesy of the RCAHMW and its Coflein website
Flint station building, like its surviving fellows in Penmaenmawr and Bangor, embodies the Italaniate features which were fashionable in architecture of the early Victorian period. The station opened on 1 May 1848, the day services began on the Chester to Bangor line.
In 1894 the London & North Western Railway (which had taken over the C&HR) prosecuted three boys, aged nine, 11 and 13, for picking the lock of a saloon carriage parked at Flint station. The boys stole items belonging to the master of the Flint and Denbigh foxhounds and several other gentlemen who had gone with him to a hunt. Having sold the stolen goods, they “spent a merry time on wine, lemonade, tobacco, cigars and cigarettes”. The eldest boy, John Doyle, was sentenced to 12 “strokes with the birch rod”, and his younger accomplices to four and three.
The photo below shows a member of staff in LNWR uniform. It's one of the old photos which you can view in the station's main waiting room.
The aerial photo, courtesy of the Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales, shows the station and adjacent goods yard in 1920. It is from the Aerofilms Collection of the National Monuments Record of Wales. Railway wagons were loaded or unloaded under cover in the goods shed (which survives) near the station building.
In 2007 the station building was refurbished, with funding contributions from Flintshire County Council and the Railway Heritage Trust. A new station footbridge with lifts was completed in 2025.
Postcode: CH6 5PG View Location Map
Copies of the old photo and other images are available from the RCAHMW. Contact: nmr.wales@rcahmw.gov.uk
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