The Chester and Holyhead Railway was an early railway company conceived to improve transmission of Government dispatches between London and Ireland, as...

Central, Llandudno and Holyhead. On 23 September 1840, the first station at Chester was opened by the Chester and Birkenhead Railway (CBR). One week later...

(Welsh: Porth Celtaidd). The first station in Holyhead was opened by the Chester and Holyhead Railway on 1 August 1848, but this was replaced by the...

Holyhead Admiralty Pier railway station served the pier in the town of Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, from 1851 to 1925 on the Chester and Holyhead Railway...

on services from Holyhead to South Wales and Birmingham International. The station was opened by the Chester and Holyhead Railway on 1 May 1848; it was...

the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company as the route of the Irish Mail services to Dublin. The line was later incorporated into the London and North...

railway station on the North Wales Coast Line serves the town of Prestatyn in North Wales. The station was built on the Chester and Holyhead Railway (CHR)...

line was finally closed on 5 January 1972. The Chester and Holyhead Railway opened its line from Chester to Bangor on 1 May 1848. This was followed on...

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...

Shrewsbury and Chester Railway used a section of the Chester and Holyhead Railway to reach Chester itself. On 24 May 1847 a bridge on that railway over the...

critical link of the Chester and Holyhead Railway's route, enabling trains to directly travel between London and the port of Holyhead, thus facilitating...

The bridge had been designed and built by famed railway engineer Robert Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead Railway. A Royal Commission inquiry found...

Gwynedd and Anglesey. The station, which cost £6,960 to build (about £21 million in 2015), was opened on 1 May 1848 by the Chester and Holyhead Railway. Lying...

acquisition of the Chester and Holyhead Railway by the LNWR, and primarily saw use on the Irish Mail route from London to Holyhead. They were the first...

multiple units. Cardiff-Holyhead: Cardiff Central to Holyhead, via Newport, Hereford, Shrewsbury, Chester, Llandudno Junction and Bangor with some southbound...

roadstead in addition to Holyhead's pre-existing 276 acres (112 ha) old harbour. With the opening of the Chester and Holyhead Railway in August 1848 on Anglesey...

completion of the Chester & Holyhead Railway in 1850, and the building of Holyhead railway station, did the Irish Mail return to Holyhead, operated from...

North Western Railway, giving it a direct route from London to Carlisle. In 1858, they merged with the Chester and Holyhead Railway and became responsible...

1840s, the Chester and Holyhead Railway committed to building a railway line along the coastline of North Wales between Chester and Holyhead on Anglesey...

intermediate stations on the Chester and Holyhead Railway main line along the coast. Trains could run between Chester and Bangor from the day the station...

passenger vessel operated by the Chester and Holyhead Railway from 1847 to 1859 and the London and North Western Railway from 1859 to 1877. She was built...

closure followed in 1983. The Chester and Holyhead Railway opened its route in 1848 from Chester to Bangor, and to Holyhead in 1850. Its promoters saw the...

The Buckley Railway was opened from Buckley to a connection with the Chester to Holyhead main line on 7 June 1862, to convey coal and finished brickworks...

passenger vessel operated by the Chester and Holyhead Railway from 1848 to 1859 and the London and North Western Railway from 1859 to 1861. She was built...

The railways arrived on Anglesey with the construction of the Chester and Holyhead Railway, of which the section from Llanfairpwll to Holyhead opened...

Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's (MSLR) Chester & Connah's Quay Railway from Chester to its link with the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway (WMCQR):...

by the London and North Western Railway, it was served by what is now the North Wales Coast Line between Chester, Cheshire and Holyhead, Anglesey. The...

and was used by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. The so-called "Irish Mail Line" of the Chester & Holyhead Railway ran from Holyhead railway station...

Liverpool and Manchester Railway, but problems with its use became all too apparent when a new bridge carrying the Chester and Holyhead Railway across the...

October 19 – Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge, completing the Chester and Holyhead Railway over the Menai Strait in North Wales, is opened. November 19...