Storeton railway station

Storeton
Location
Place	Storeton
Area	Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
Coordinates	53°20′58″N 3°04′02″W / 53.3494°N 3.0671°WCoordinates: 53°20′58″N 3°04′02″W / 53.3494°N 3.0671°W
Grid reference	SJ291842
Operations
Original company	North Wales and Liverpool Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
1896	Opened
1900	Renamed Storeton for Barnston
1933	Renamed Storeton
1951	Closed to passengers
1964	Closed
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Storeton railway station was located on the northern side of Station Road, between Barnston and Storeton, England. Originally named Barnston, it opened on 18 May 1896 on the North Wales and Liverpool Railway.^[1] The station was renamed as Storeton for Barnston on 1 May 1900, and simply as Storeton in 1933.^[1] The station closed to passengers on 3 December 1951^[2] and finally closed on 3 February 1964.^[1] The station had a 23-lever signal box, south of the road bridge, which operated the lines to the adjacent goods yard and was used until 2 July 1965.^[3][4]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Heswall		Great Central Railway North Wales and Liverpool Railway		Upton

References

1. "Station Name: STORETON". Disused stations. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
2. Passengers No More by G.Daniels and L.Dench
3. Mitchell & Smith 2013, map XXXI
4. Mitchell & Smith 2013, fig. 92

Sources

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2013). Wrexham to New Brighton. West Sussex: Middleton Press. ISBN 9781908174475. OCLC 859543196.

Further reading

• Merseyside Railway History Group (1994). Railway Stations of Wirral. Prenton: Ian & Marilyn Boumphrey. ISBN 1-899241-02-7. OCLC 500124599.