Development Llangollen was already a popular place for
Victorian era tourists by the 1840s. Travel up to this point had been by horse-drawn carriage, but by the 1840s the
Shrewsbury to Chester line had been completed, allowing passengers to alight at , and then take a
coach towards
Holyhead. However, the commercial development of the local mining industry meant that the development of a railway became essential to the region's economic development. A number of schemes were proposed, including one by the
LNWR, but it was not until 1 August 1859 that a scheme engineered by Henry Robertson received
Royal Assent. The
Vale of Llangollen Railway left the Shrewsbury to Chester main line south of , and built as a single track line on a double track route proceeded via to the new station at Llangollen. The line opened to freight on 1 December 1861, and to passengers on 2 June 1862 at a temporary terminus on the town's eastern outskirts. The extension to was undertaken by the associated but separate
Llangollen and Corwen Railway company, and involved constructing a long tunnel under the local
Berwyn Mountains. It, together with the new centrally positioned and larger station in Llangollen, opened for service on 1 May 1865. Between the two world wars, a direct service connection time of less than 6hrs was possible on a daily basis between and .
Closure '' event, February 2008 Designated for closure under the
Beeching cuts, the station closed to passengers on Monday 18 January 1965 but the section between Ruabon and Llangollen Goods Yard remained opened for freight traffic until April 1968. Immediately afterwards the track was removed from the whole line between Ruabon and Barmouth Jn. ==Preservation==