Linacre Road railway station

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Template other Linacre Road railway station was a station located on the North Mersey Branch in Litherland, Lancashire.

History

The North Mersey Branch line through the station site was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) for freight on 27 August 1866, the branch connecting the North Mersey goods station to the main line between Template:Rws and Template:Rws.Template:Sfn

The station opened for service on 1 June 1906 when the Seaforth connecting line was opened and the line between Template:Rws and Template:Rws using the connecting line was electrified.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

The station was located just east of the junction between the branch and the connecting line where the line crossed Linacre Road on an over bridge.

The station was to the east of road alongside Litherland tram sheds, there was a sloping pathway leading up to a wooden booking office from which there were steps up to the east-bound platform and a subway then steps up to the west-bound. The platforms were of all wooden construction with simple waiting shelters.Template:Sfn

There was an early short-lived service through, and probably using, the station when a connection was made with the Liverpool Overhead Railway (LOR) near their Template:Rws station and through services were run from Template:Rws through the station onto the LOR to Template:Rws, this route needed lighter and smaller trains to operate along the LOR and twelve were built for this service, it was not a successful venture and stopped in September 1908, the trains being redeployed.Template:Sfn

In 1910 there were 17 services in each direction on a week day, with about half of the Template:Rws services continuing on to Template:Rws (electric trains started running to here on 1 October 1909). In the other direction the services ran over the Seaforth connecting line through Template:Rws to Template:Rws.Template:Sfn

In 1914 a section of line from where the connecting line joined the branch toward the docks was electrified and Template:Rws station opened. A new service began from Template:Rws to Template:Rws, there were seven trains each day in each direction with an extra service on Saturdays. The service ceased on 7 July 1924 when Gladstone Dock station closed.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

On race days at Aintree racecourse passenger trains, including those of the Liverpool Overhead Railway would pass through the station site on special services to and from Template:Rws station (on these occasions the L&YR stations at Aintree were differentiated by adding Sefton Arms or Racecourse).

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922 and in turn was Grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Nationalisation followed in 1948.Template:Sfn

In 1939 the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was operating about 22 services each way that stopped at the station.Template:Sfn By 1944 this had reduced to around twelve each way.Template:Sfn

The station closed on 2 April 1951 but the line continued to be used by freight trains.Template:Sfn The LOR service for the Grand National ceased when the LOR closed at the end of 1956.Template:Sfn

The singled track is still in place, although no longer electrified and in a state of dereliction.

Since the 1970s there have been plans to re-electrify the North Mersey Branch and reintroduce a passenger service. As part of those plans Linacre Road station would reopen.Template:Bsn Template:Routemap Template:Disused Rail Start |- | rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; text-align:center; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 1px #aaa solid; border-top: 1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;"| Template:Rws | style="background:#; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |  

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Bibliography

• Template:Bradshaw-1910April
• Template:Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 2
• Template:Quick-stations-5.05