Southport London Street railway station

Southport London Street
General information
LocationSouthport, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
England
Coordinates53°38′43″N 3°00′00″W / 53.6454°N 2.9999°W / 53.6454; -2.9999
Grid referenceSD339170
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Opened9 April 1855 (1855-04-09)
Closed1 April 1857 (1857-04-01)
Original companyEast Lancashire Railway
Pre-groupingLancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-groupingLondon Midland and Scottish Railway

Southport London Street was a railway station in Southport, Merseyside.

History

It opened on 9 April 1855 as the East Lancashire Railway's terminus for the Manchester and Southport Railway, a line that it had acquired and jointly operated with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.[1]

The station closed on 1 April 1857, with all services transferred to the adjacent Southport Chapel Street, though the station buildings remained in use as a 'repairing shed' (according to the 1894 Ordnance Survey).[1][2][3]

An expansion of Chapel Street in 1914 swallowed the site completely, though its name was preserved with platforms 12 and 13 dubbed the "London Street Excursion Platforms".[4] When Chapel Street was rebuilt in the early 1970s, the excursion platforms were filled in to make space for a car park.

References

  1. ^ a b Quick 2023, p. 424.
  2. ^ Marshall 1969, p. 158.
  3. ^ Lancashire LXXV.9 (Map). 25 inch. Ordnance Survey. 1894.
  4. ^ Gell 1986.

Bibliography

Further reading


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Bescar Lane   East Lancashire Railway
Manchester and Southport Railway 		  Terminus


Stub icon

This article on a railway station in Merseyside is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.