Area Halton 18 December 1850 (1850-12-18) Opened as Norton Platforms in use 2 | Grid reference SJ559815 Original company Birkenhead Railway | |
Pre-grouping Birkenhead Joint Railway Post-grouping Birkenhead Joint Railway 1926 Renamed Norton (Cheshire) Similar Hassall Green railway st, Broxton railway station, Daresbury railway station, Mickle Trafford railway st, Balderton railway station | ||
Norton railway station was a station near Norton, a village to the east of Runcorn, Cheshire, England. It was located just north of the 1.25 mile (2km) Sutton Tunnel and was built as a result of the recommendations of a Board of Trade enquiry into a fatal accident in the tunnel the previous year.
It was opened by the Birkenhead, Lancashire & Cheshire Joint Railway company on 18 December 1850; originally named Norton, it was renamed Norton (Cheshire) in 1926; and it was closed to passenger traffic by the British Transport Commission on 1 September 1952. Most of the station has since been demolished, but the old station house remains in use as a private dwelling and there is a signal box nearby that still bears this name. A new station, known as Runcorn East was opened a few metres south of the original site in October 1983 to serve the southern end of Runcorn new town.