Warbreck railway station

Warbreck
Location
Place	Walton
Area	Liverpool
Coordinates	53°27′48″N 2°57′28″W / 53.4632°N 2.9579°WCoordinates: 53°27′48″N 2°57′28″W / 53.4632°N 2.9579°W
Grid reference	SJ364967
Operations
Line	North Liverpool Extension Line
Original company	Cheshire Lines Committee
Post-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Platforms	2[1]
History
1 August 1929	Station opened
7 November 1960	Station closed[2]
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Cheshire Lines Committee
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

Warbreck railway station was on the North Liverpool Extension Line to the south of Walton Vale, Liverpool, England.^[3]

The purely passenger station opened on 1 August 1929, and closed on 7 November 1960.^[4] The through tracks were not lifted until 1980.

References

1. Bolger 1984, pp. 80-81.
2. Bolger 1984, pp. 8-9.
3. Jowett 1989, Map 43.
4. Butt 1995, p. 241.

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.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.

External links

• Warbreck The station via Disused Stations UK
• Station on a 1948 O.S. map via npe Maps
• Station and line HTS via railwaycodes

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Clubmoor Line and station closed		Cheshire Lines Committee North Liverpool Extension Line Mainline		Aintree Central Line and station closed
Walton on the Hill Line and station closed		Cheshire Lines Committee North Liverpool Extension Line Dock Branch