Burton Point railway station

Burton Point
Burton Point railway station in 1961, six years after closure
Location
Place	Burton, Wirral Peninsula
Area	Cheshire West and Chester
Coordinates	53°15′48″N 3°02′45″W / 53.2634°N 3.0459°WCoordinates: 53°15′48″N 3°02′45″W / 53.2634°N 3.0459°W
Grid reference	SJ303745
Operations
Original company	North Wales and Liverpool Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 August 1899	Opened[1]
5 December 1955	Closed[1]
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Burton Point railway station was located on the northern side of Station Road, at Burton, Cheshire, England. The station opened on 1 August 1899^[1] on the North Wales and Liverpool Railway.^[2] The station closed to passengers, and completely, on 5 December 1955.^[1][2] Although the platform waiting rooms and footbridge were demolished after closure, the yellow and redbrick main building^[3][4] remains in use as part of a garden centre and the platforms are still in existence.^[2] The line through the former station remains in use as part of the Borderlands Line.^[2]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Sealand Rifle Range Halt		Great Central Railway North Wales and Liverpool Railway		Neston

References

1. Mitchell & Smith 2013, map XXVIII
2. "Station Name: BURTON POINT". Disused stations. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
3. Merseyside Railway History Group 1994, p. 62
4. Mitchell & Smith 2013, fig. 82

Sources

• Merseyside Railway History Group (1994). Railway Stations of Wirral. Prenton: Ian & Marilyn Boumphrey. ISBN 1-899241-02-7. OCLC 500124599.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2013). Wrexham to New Brighton. West Sussex: Middleton Press. ISBN 9781908174475. OCLC 859543196.