Gateacre | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Gateacre, Liverpool England |
| Coordinates | 53°23′05″N 2°51′36″W / 53.3846°N 2.8599°W / 53.3846; -2.8599 |
| Grid reference | SJ429879 |
| Line(s) | North Liverpool Extension Line |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | Cheshire Lines Committee |
| Pre-grouping | Cheshire Lines Committee |
| Post-grouping | Cheshire Lines Committee |
| Key dates | |
| 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 |
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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 stands.
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※
- ^ Bolger 1984, pp. 44–45.
- ^ Pixton 2007, pp. 38–39.
- ^ Bolger 1984, pp. 10–11.
- ^ 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. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
- Pixton, Bob (2007). Liverpool Manchester 2:Cheshire Lines. Southampton: Kestrel Railway Books. ISBN 978-1-905505-03-6.
External links※
- "The station's history". Disused Stations UK.
- "The station on a 1948 O.S. map". npe Maps.
- "The station on an 1888 OS map overlay". National Library of Scotland.
- "The station and line HTS". railwaycodes.
- "The trackbed". Sustrans.
- "The station signalbox". Liverpool Connections.
- "The residual service". 8D Association.
- "Gateacre and its station". Brian Daugherty.
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