 The 21-lever signal box, opposite the goods yard, was in use until 6 October 1963.A return to Chester Northgate Station would cost 6d compared to a bus fare of 9d return.Despite being a busy station, British Railways closed it to passengers on 9 September 1968  as part of the Beeching Axe for the economic modernisation of the British railway network in the mid-1960s.