South Shore railway station

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South Shore / Lytham Road
Location
Location Lytham Road, opposite Station Road, South Shore
Area Blackpool
Coordinates 53°47′45″N 3°02′58″W / 53.7957, -3.0493Coordinates: 53°47′45″N 3°02′58″W / 53.7957, -3.0493
Operations
Original company Blackpool and Lytham Railway
Pre-grouping Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway / London and North Western Railway
Platforms 2
History
1863 Opened as South Shore
1903 Renamed Lytham Road
14 July 1916 Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom

Closed railway stations in Britain
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South Shore railway station was originally the only intermediate station on the Blackpool and Lytham Railway, at South Shore in Lancashire, England, when it opened in 1863.[1]

In 1903 it was renamed Lytham Road.[2] In that same year the express Marton Line from Kirkham was built with a new Waterloo Road railway station at its junction with the Lytham line. The new station was just 300 yards (300 m) north of Lytham Road station, whose days were then numbered, closing in 1916.

[edit] References

Maps showing
South Shore Station
Old OS Maps (estimated 1925 to 1945)
NPE Maps (1947)
Vision of Britain  
OS 1:2500 Map on MARIO (about 1892)
Other maps

SD 3098 3378
  1. ^ Branch Line News 1026, 16 September 2006, p.210/06, Branch Line Society, Epsom, accessed via Google cache 17 October 2007
  2. ^ Hartley, S. and Mitchell, L. (2005) Lancashire Historic Town Survey—BlackpoolPDF (25.5 MiB), Lancashire County Council Environment Directorate, accessed 30 October 2007, p.23
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Waterloo Road   Blackpool and Lytham Railway   Burlington Road Halt