Neston South railway station
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| Neston South | |||
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| Taken on the Wirral Way approaching the station[1]. | |||
| Location | |||
| Location | The Wirral | ||
| Area | Metropolitan Borough of Wirral | ||
| Grid reference | SJ297773 | ||
| Operations | |||
| Pre-grouping | (1866-1923)West Kirby-Hooton branch of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway[2]) |
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| Post-grouping | (1923 to 1948)LMS (1948 to 1956)LMS(BR) [3] |
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| Platforms | 2 | ||
| History | |||
| 1 October 1866 (1st station); 19 April 1886 (2nd station) | Opened | ||
| 17 September 1956[4] | Closed | ||
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |||
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Neston South railway station was a station on the single track Chester and Birkenhead Railway (Hooton to West Kirby branch) which opened in 1866 that served the eponymous community on the west coast of the Wirral peninsula[5] . It was situated half a mile south east of Neston North railway station[6] and was closed in 1956 (although the track continued to be used for driver training for another eight years[7]). A decade later the track bed was lifted and a footpath laid to create Britain’s first Country Park[8].
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Hadlow Road | Chester and Birkenhead Railway Wirral Way |
Parkgate | ||
[edit] Notes
- ^ Article On the track of a country park by Rex Christiansen in "The Countryman"(Gill,C-Ed) Autumn 1977
- ^ Owned jointly by the London and North Western Railway and the Great Western Railway
- ^ Although freight services continued until the Sixties
- ^ Freight closure 7 May 1962
- ^ Enthusiasts web-site
- ^ Today known simply as Neston
- ^ "The Hooton to West Kirby Branch", Merseyside Railway History Group(Scheele,R(Ed): Birkenhead, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral,1982 ISBN 0904582043
- ^ Details of park
