A "North Wrexham" station was first proposed in July 2015, in the Welsh Government's National Transport Finance Plan 2015.

[4][5] For stage 2 of the assessment, "North Wrexham" was allocated the old Rossett railway station site, located where the recently dualled railway tracks from Saltney Junction merge into a single track towards Wrexham.

The assessment stated that benefits for the station to be located here include: serving Rossett village, potential park and ride operations for employment connections to Wrexham, Chester and Liverpool, proximity to the A483 dual carriageway, and potential land availability for car parking.

[7] In 2021, the proposed station re-emerged in Transport for Wales' Metro Development Plan published in March 2021,[8] and the Future Developments plan for the North Wales Metro published in September 2021.

The accompanying maps for the latter, used to represent Transport for Wales' long-term ambitions in the region, include a proposed station located north of Wrexham, near Gresford, termed "Wrexham North".