Speke railway station

Speke Railway Station
Location
Place	Speke
Area	Liverpool
Coordinates	53°21′12″N 2°51′07″W / 53.35342°N 2.85181°WCoordinates: 53°21′12″N 2°51′07″W / 53.35342°N 2.85181°W
Grid reference	SJ434844
Operations
Original company	St Helens Railway
Pre-grouping	LNWR
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	4
History
September 1852	Opened
22 September 1930	Closed
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St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway
Legend
Liverpool and Bury Railway Rainford Junction Skelmersdale Branch Liverpool and Bury Railway Rainford Village Rookery Old Mill Lane Crank Halt Moss Bank Pilkington Glass Gerards Bridge Liverpool to Wigan Line to Wigan North Western St Helens Central (original GCR station) St Helens Central Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway Liverpool to Wigan Line to Liverpool Lime Street Peasley Cross Hays Chemicals Sutton Oak Robins Lane Halt Liverpool and Manchester Railway to Manchester Victoria St Helens Junction Liverpool and Manchester Railway to Liverpool Lime Street Clock Face Union Bank Farm Halt Farnworth & Bold Appleton Ann Street Halt Warrington and Stockport Railway Vladivar Vodka distillery Warrington Arpley Birkenhead Railway Warrington Bank Quay High Level • Low Level Chester to Manchester Line Whitecross Sankey Bridges Fidlers Ferry & Penketh Fiddlers Ferry power station Cuerdley Widnes Loop to Sankey Tanhouse Lane Widnes Central Cheshire Lines Committee (Liverpool to Manchester) Hough Green Widnes South Runcorn Gap(2nd) Runcorn Gap(1st) swing bridge Widnes Dock Ditton Mill London and North Western Railway to Weaver Junction & Euston Runcorn Bridge Ditton Junction Halebank Speke 1864 extension to Liverpool Church Road Garston Garston Container terminal Garston Dock Garston and Liverpool Railway to Hunts Cross Hunts Cross chord Liverpool South Parkway to Liverpool Central Allerton West Allerton Mossley Hill Sefton Park Wavertree Liverpool and Manchester Railway Edge Hill Liverpool Lime Street

Speke railway station was a station on the southeastern edge of Liverpool, England. It was situated on the East side of Woodend Avenue.

History

The station opened in September 1852 and closed 22 September 1930.^[1]

By 1938 no trace of the platforms could be seen.^[2]

References

1. Speke railway station via Disused Stations UK
2. Fields, Gilbert & Knight 1980, Photo 246

Sources

• Fields, N; Gilbert, A C; Knight, N R (1980), Liverpool to Manchester into the Second Century, Manchester Transport Museum Society, ISBN 0 900857 19 6

External links

• Speke railway station via Disused Stations UK