Ah, thanks, I thought I'd heard something like that. Good to get in confirmed by someone who actually knows
You beat me to it. I'm a bit bemused by people thinking that. Presumably they've little experience of the line. Similar to Liverpool, it's not the sleepy backwater some seem to suggest on here.
It's not uncommon to have to stand between Llandudno Junction and Chester on occasion, particularly on summer Sundays, and if there's been disruption on the ferries it can be chaos.
I don't understand the "long trains don't work in North Wales" comment. I think some people have a tendency to look at Wikipedia for its stat on how many people live somewhere then decide it's too small to have a good service, without taking the area into account at all.