Shotton railway station
Shotton 
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View down to a Class 175 standing at Shotton's Low Level platform on the North Wales Coast Line.
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| Location | |
| Place | Shotton |
| Local authority | Flintshire |
| Grid reference | SJ307689 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SHT |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 246,270 |
| 2012/13 |
 246,270 |
| 2013/14 |
247,938 |
| 2014/15 |
 240,596 |
| – Interchange | 16,964 |
| 2015/16 |
237,194 |
| – Interchange |
16,042 |
| History | |
| 1 October 1891 | High level station opened as Connah's Quay & Shotton |
| 15 September 1952 | High Level and Low Level suffixes added |
| 14 February 1966 | Shotton Low Level closed |
| 21 August 1972 | Low level station reopened as part of Shotton |
| 26 September 1999 | High Level suffix restored |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shotton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Shotton railway station serves the town of Shotton, Flintshire, Wales. It is situated where the Borderlands Line crosses the North Wales Coast Line. All passenger services are operated by Arriva Trains Wales, which manages the station.
Shotton is split into two sections: Shotton High Level is above street level and serves the Borderlands Line; Shotton Low Level serves the North Wales Coast Line. Each level has two side platforms and both are double tracked. The tracks of the high and low levels cross each other at right angles.
There is a ticket office on the high level Bidston-bound platform. The station is staffed on weekdays and Saturday mornings only.
The town gained its first railway as early as 1848 with the opening of the Chester and Holyhead Railway, but the railway company did not provide a station to serve it. The town had to wait until 1890 for its first station, when one was built by the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway as the northern end of their Hawarden Loop line from Buckley. This station opened on 1 October 1891 as Connah's Quay & Shotton and became Shotton High Level on 15 September 1952. It connected there to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's line from Chester Northgate via Hawarden Bridge. The link to Bidston was added by the North Wales and Liverpool Railway in 1896, whilst the LNWR built two wooden platforms on the main line to Holyhead in 1907 to give the town access to trains along the coast to Crewe, Rhyl, Llandudno and Holyhead and to allow interchange with the Wrexham line.
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