Gateacre railway station

Gateacre
Location
Place Gateacre
Area Liverpool
Coordinates 53°23′05″N 2°51′36″W / 53.3846°N 2.8599°W / 53.3846; -2.8599Coordinates: 53°23′05″N 2°51′36″W / 53.3846°N 2.8599°W / 53.3846; -2.8599
Grid reference SJ429879
Operations
Line North Liverpool Extension Line
Original company Cheshire Lines Committee
Pre-grouping Cheshire Lines Committee
Post-grouping Cheshire Lines Committee
Platforms 2[1][2]
History
1 December 1879 Station opened to passengers as "Gateacre (for Woolton)"
March 1882 Opened for goods
4 December 1965 Closed for goods
15 April 1972 Closed completely[3][4]
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Gateacre (for Woolton) railway station was located on the North Liverpool Extension Line on the north side of Belle Vale Road, Gateacre, Liverpool, England. Next door was the Black Bull public house which still existed in 2015.

Official maps, tickets, timetables, a large exterior station sign and platform nameboards variously refer to the station as "Gateacre", "Gateacre, for Woolton", "Gateacre for Woolton" and "Gateacre & Woolton". "Gateacre" is pronounced "Gattiker."

The station had outlived those on the same line north of Aintree by twenty years and all the remainder by twelve years when it closed to passengers on 15 April 1972. It had latterly been the suburban terminus of the sole residual service from Liverpool Central (High Level). It was planned that the station would reopen as the southern terminus of Merseyrail's Northern Line. This never occurred, with Hunts Cross becoming the terminus. The tracks through the station site were used for freight trains to Liverpool Docks until 1975. They were lifted in early 1979.

By 2015 the trackbed though the station site formed part of the Trans Pennine Trail.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Hunts Cross
Line closed, station open		   Cheshire Lines Committee
North Liverpool Extension Line		   Childwall
Line and station closed
Halewood
Line closed, station open		    

References

  1. ↑ Bolger 1984, pp. 44-45.
  2. ↑ Pixton 2007, pp. 38-39.
  3. ↑ Bolger 1984, pp. 10-11.
  4. ↑ Butt 1995, p. xxx.

Sources

  • Bolger, Paul (1984). An Illustrated History of the Cheshire Lines Committee. Merseyside: Heyday Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-947562-00-7. 
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. 
  • Pixton, Bob (2007). Liverpool Manchester 2:Cheshire Lines. Southampton: Kestrel Railway Books. ISBN 978-1-905505-03-6. 
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