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Liscard and Poulton railway station

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Place
  
Wallasey

Pre-grouping
  
LMS

Platforms in use
  
1

Area
  
Wirral

Original company
  
Wirral Railway

Liscard and Poulton railway station

Key dates
  
Opened 1 June 1895 Closed 4 January 1960

Similar
  
Wirral Peninsula, Seacombe railway station, Chester Liverpool Road rail, Chester Northgate railway st, Hawarden Bridge

Liscard and Poulton railway station was located in Wallasey, Wirral, England and was an intermediate station on the Seacombe branch of the Wirral Railway.

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History

The station opened to passengers on 1 June 1895, hosting regular passenger services to Wrexham, Chester, West Kirby and New Brighton. The station consisted of an island platform, located deep in a sandstone cutting accessed from a road bridge on Mill Lane, with a booking office at street level. A coal siding with an adjoining sloping approach road were also located at the station.

Passenger numbers were poor, although the line was also regularly used by goods traffic. When the majority of the Wirral Railway was electrified in 1938, the Seacombe branch was omitted.

Closure

The station was closed to passengers on 4 January 1960, although the line did continue to serve goods trains up until 1963. The route was then used to form the approach road to the Kingsway (Wallasey) Tunnel.

References

Liscard and Poulton railway station Wikipedia