Borderlands Line

Borderlands line
Class 150 DMU on the Borderlands line near Bidston
Overview
Type	Heavy rail
System	National Rail
Locale	Wrexham Flintshire Cheshire Merseyside
Termini	Wrexham Central Bidston (Birkenhead)
Stations	15 with Wrexham General and Shotton as interchanges with main line services
Operation
Owner	Network Rail
Operator(s)	Arriva Trains Wales
Rolling stock	Class 150 Sprinter
Technical
Number of tracks	Double track throughout except Wrexham General to Wrexham Central
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge

The Borderlands line (Welsh: Llinell y Gororau) is the railway line between Wrexham, Wales and Bidston on the Wirral in England.

Passenger train services are operated by Arriva Trains Wales between Wrexham Central and Bidston. Bidston is an interchange station for Merseyrail services to Liverpool and the Wirral. Trains run every hour Monday to Saturday daytime, every two hours after 18:45 and on Sundays. Connections with other National Rail services are at Bidston (changing for Merseyrail services to West Kirby, Birkenhead and Liverpool Lime Street for London and long haul national routes), Shotton (change for Chester and London trains and the North Wales Coast line) and Wrexham General (for the Shrewsbury–Chester line).

The line is also referred to as the Mid Wirral line, as most of the line runs north-south through the middle of the Wirral peninsula. The Wirral's other railway routes are provided with frequent Merseyrail electric trains. The Borderlands line has a relatively infrequent diesel operated service.

Holders of the Concessionary Travel Pass resident in Wrexham and Flintshire can travel free along part of the line, from Wrexham Central Station to Hawarden Bridge Station. Holders of the Merseytravel Concessionary Travel Pass can travel free along the section of the line that runs through Merseyside, from Heswall Station to Bidston Station.