Chester Liverpool Road railway station

Chester Liverpool Road railway station
Site of the former Chester Liverpool Road station in 2005
Location
Place Chester
Area Cheshire West and Chester
Grid reference SJ405669
Operations
Original company Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Pre-grouping Great Central Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms 4
History
March 31, 1890 (1890-03-31) Station opened
April 5, 1965 (1965-04-05) Station closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Chester Liverpool Road was a station on the former Chester & Connah's Quay Railway between Chester Northgate and Hawarden Bridge. It was located at the junction of Liverpool Road and Brook Lane in Chester.

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History

The station was opened on March 31, 1890 by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (which was renamed Great Central Railway in 1897). The station had an island with two adjacent side platforms because it served two routes. Services from North Wales or Liverpool (using the Great Central Railway) could either terminate at Chester Northgate Station, the Chester terminus of the Cheshire Lines Committee, or continue on the through line to Manchester Central. The through lines, which linked Dee Marsh junction to the CLC route to Manchester, passed to the north of the island platform, whereas the branch lines that ran to Chester Northgate went to the south of the island platform.

The station's four platforms were used as follows:

  1. for westbound trains leaving Chester Northgate for North Wales or Liverpool (side)
  2. for eastbound trains terminating at Chester Northgate (island).
  3. for westbound through trains for North Wales or Liverpool (island).
  4. for eastbound through trains bound for Manchester (side).

Chester Liverpool Road also had a goods yard with sidings.[1]

Passenger services ceased on December 1951. The station was completely closed April 5, 1965 (1965-04-05).

Even though steelmaking operations at the Corus plant at Shotton ceased in March 1980,[2] freight continued to pass the former station on a double-tracked line until 20 April 1984. Goods services resumed on a single-track line on 31 August 1986 before final closure in the early 1990s.[1][3]. The trackbed is now a cycle way.

The station was demolished in the 1970s. The site then became a coal yard. In the 2000s the area was completely redeveloped for a fitness centre.

Services

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Chester Northgate   Chester & Connah's Quay Railway
GCR
  Blacon

References

  1. ^ a b "Station Name: CHESTER LIVERPOOL ROAD". Disused Stations. 2009-08-14. http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/c/chester_liverpool_road/index.shtml. 
  2. ^ "Shotton Steelworks and Garden City". http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/flintshire/pages/steel.shtml. Retrieved 6 October 2008. 
  3. ^ Oppitz, Leslie (1997). Cheshire Railways Remembered. Countryside Books. p. 111. ISBN 1-85306-458-0. 

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