Liverpool Riverside was owned by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board and located at Liverpool's Pier Head ship liner terminal. The station was specifically used for ship liner traffic, opening on the June 12, 1895.[1]. It was accessed via the Victoria and Waterloo tunnels.
Due to weight restrictions on the line, it was worked by a pair of LNWR Webb Coal Tank locomotives which took trains from Edge Hill railway station until strengthening of the infrastructure around the docks area in 1950 allowed large mainline locomotives to travel through.[2]
The station was closed by an accident on October 21, 1949 and reopened on March 27, 1950.
The station was heavily used during both World Wars, receiving troop trains from all over the United Kingdom, however a decline in Atlantic liner traffic in the 1960s due to the growing popularity of air travel saw its use decline.
The last train to use the station was a troop train carrying soldiers bound for Belfast on 25 February 1971.[2] It was demolished in the 1990s.
Reed, C. Gateway to the West: A history of Riverside Station Liverpool. MB&HB - LNWR. LNWR Society, 1992.