Chester and Birkenhead Railway

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Chester and
Birkenhead
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Cathcart Street(goods)
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Birkenhead Docks
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Birkenhead Monks Ferry
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Birkenhead Woodside
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LUECKE exHST
Birkenhead Town
STRlf xABZlg
Mersey Railway
HST
Rock Ferry
HST
Bebington
HST
Port Sunlight
HST
Spital
HST
Bromborough
HST
Hooton
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exSTR STR HST
Little Sutton
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Overpool
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Ellesmere Port
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Stanlow and Thornton
exSTR STR HST
Ince and Elton
exHST STR STR
Hadlow Road
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Neston South
exHST STR STR
Parkgate
exHST STR STR
Heswall
exHST STR STR
Thurstaston
exHST STR STR
Caldy
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Kirby Park
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West Kirby
LUECKE STR STR
Wirral Railway
HST STR
Capenhurst
HST STR
Bache
eHST STR
Mollington
HLUECKE ABZrd STR
To Holyhead
BHF STR
Chester General
eHST STR
Mickle Trafford
eHST STR
Dunham Hill
ABZrg STRrf
HST
Helsby
HST
Frodsham
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Halton
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Halton Curve
eHST LUECKE
Norton
HST
Runcorn East
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Daresbury
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Warrington Bank Quay



The Chester and Birkenhead Railway ran from Birkenhead to Chester then on to Acton Grange East Junction near Warrington. It opened on 23 September 1838 and was joint railway owned by the London and North Western Railway and the Great Western Railway.

A branch from Hooton to Helsby was opened on 1 July 1863, at Helsby the line joined the railways Chester to Warrinton section.

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[edit] Currently Working

The lines between Birkenhead and Chester, and from Hooton to Ellesmere Port (on the Helsby branch) now form part of the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network. The section of line from Ellesmere Port to Warrington is operated by Northern Rail as the Chester Helsby section.

[edit] Closed Section

A single, twelve mile line branch from Hooton to Parkgate opened on 1 October 1866. On 19 April 1886 the line was extended to West Kirby where it connected to the Wirral Railway. Closed to passengers in 1956 and to freight traffic in 1962, the track bed of this route is now the Wirral Way, a footpath forming part of the Wirral Country Park.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • Merseyside Railway History Group, The Hooton to West Kirby Branch Line and the Wirral Way, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, 1982, ISBN 0-904582-04-3.
  • Jeff Vinter, Railway Walks: LMS, (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1990) ISBN 0-86299-734-8.

[edit] External links

[edit] Gallery

Detail of railway at Birkenhead

Detail at of Railway Warrington

Detail of railway at Chester

Details of railway West Kirby

Detail of railway at Frodsham & Helsby