In November 2013, during a Westminster parliamentary debate, Mark Tami, MP for Alyn and Deeside said there was a case to be made of having railway stations at the Airbus factory in Broughton, and at Deeside industrial park.

[1] Later in 2015, a station, provisionally named "Broughton", was included in the Welsh Government's National Transport Finance Plan 2015, published in July 2015.

[4] In 2021, the proposed station re-emerged in Transport for Wales' Metro Development Plan published in March 2021,[5] and the Future Developments plan for the North Wales Metro published in September 2021.

The map describes the proposals visually represented to be "Emerging priorities to 2029" for the North Wales Metro.

[6][7] There is no definitive location for the station selected by Transport for Wales as of January 2022[update].