Gateacre railway station

Gateacre
Location
Place	Gateacre
Area	Liverpool
Coordinates	53°23′05″N 2°51′36″W / 53.3846°N 2.8599°WCoordinates: 53°23′05″N 2°51′36″W / 53.3846°N 2.8599°W
Grid reference	SJ429879
Operations
Line	North Liverpool Extension Line
Original company	Cheshire Lines Committee
Pre-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Post-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Platforms	2[1]
History
1 December 1879	Station opened to passengers as "Gateacre (for Woolton)"
March 1882	Opened for goods
4 December 1965	Closed for goods
15 April 1972	Closed completely[2][3]
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Legend
Merseyside Lines  Southport Lord Street Birkdale Palace to Southport Ainsdale Ainsdale Beach Northern Line Woodvale Freshfield to Liverpool Central Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway Barton Mossbridge Hillhouse Junction Altcar and Hillhouse Lydiate Sefton and Maghull to Ormskirk Old Roan Aintree Junction Southport Junction Aintree Central Aintree Northern Line Warbreck Orrell Park Walton to Kirkby Rice Lane to Liverpool Central Fazakerley Junctions Walton on the Hill Huskisson Clubmoor West Derby Knotty Ash & Stanley Broad Green City Line Childwall Gateacre Northern Line Liverpool Central Liverpool Central High Level St James Brunswick(original) Egerton Street Junction Brunswick St Michaels Otterspool Aigburth Cressington to Lime Street Garston Liverpool South Parkway Hunts Cross West Junction Hunts Cross to Manchester Central

Gateacre (for Woolton) railway station was located on the North Liverpool Extension Line on the north side of Belle Vale Road, Gateacre, Liverpool, England, by the Black Bull public house and railway bridge which still existed in 2015.

The station is variously referred to on official maps, tickets, timetables, a large exterior station sign and platform nameboards as "Gateacre", "Gateacre, for Woolton", "Gateacre for Woolton" and "Gateacre & Woolton".

The station had outlived those on the same line north of Aintree by twenty years and all the remainder by twelve years when it closed to passengers on 15 April 1972. It had latterly been the suburban terminus of the sole residual service from Liverpool Central (High Level). It was planned that the station would reopen as the southern terminus of Merseyrail's Northern Line. This never occurred, with Hunts Cross station becoming the terminus. The tracks through the station site were used for freight trains to Liverpool Docks until 1975. They were lifted in early 1979.

By 2015 the trackbed though the station site formed part of the Trans Pennine Trail.

References

1. Bolger 1984, pp. 44-45.
2. Bolger 1984, pp. 10-11.
3. Butt 1995, p. xxx.

Sources

• Bolger, Paul (1984). An Illustrated History of the Cheshire Lines Committee. Merseyside: Heyday Publishing Company. ISBN 0 947562 00 1.
• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.

External links

• The station via Disused Stations UK
• The station on a 1948 O.S. map via npe Maps
• The station on an 1888 OS map overlay via National Library of Scotland
• The station and line HTS via railwaycodes
• The trackbed via Sustrans
• The station signalbox via Liverpool Connections
• The residual service via 8D Association
• Gateacre and its station via Brian Daugherty

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Hunts Cross Line closed, station open		Cheshire Lines Committee North Liverpool Extension Line		Childwall Line and station closed
Halewood Line closed, station open