Liscard and Poulton railway station

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

Liscard and Poulton
The site of the former Liscard & Poulton railway station, now the approach road from the M53 mid Wirral motorway into the Wallasey Tunnel.
LocationWallasey, Wirral
England
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyWirral Railway
Pre-groupingWirral Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 June 1895Station opened
4 January 1960Station closed

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.[1]

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.[1][2]

References
  1. Merseyside Railway History Group. Railway Stations of Wirral. Ian & Marilyn Boumphrey. p. 49. ISBN 1-899241-02-7.
  2. "Disused Stations: Liscard & Poulton". Subterranea Britannica. Retrieved 22 May 2008.

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2013). Wrexham to New Brighton. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 104-105. ISBN 9781908174475. OCLC 859543196.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Seacombe & Egremont
Line and station closed		   London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Wirral Railway		   Bidston
Line closed, station open
    Birkenhead North
Line closed, station open
    Wallasey Village
Line closed, station open


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