Liscard and Poulton railway station

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Liscard and Poulton
Location
Location	Wallasey
Area	Wirral
Operations
Original company	Wirral Railway
Pre-grouping	LMS
Platforms	Two
History
Key dates	Opened 1 June 1895
	Closed 4 January 1960
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Liscard and Poulton railway station was located in Wallasey, Wirral, England.

The station was an intermediate station on the Seacombe branch of the Wirral Railway. It opened to passengers on 1 June 1895, hosting regular passenger services to Wrexham, Chester, West Kirby and New Brighton. The station consisted of an island platform, located deep in a sandstone cutting accessed from a road bridge on Mill Lane, with a booking office at street level. A coal siding with an adjoining sloping approach road were also located at the station.^[1]

Passenger numbers were poor, although the line was also regularly used by goods traffic. When the majority of the Wirral Railway was electrified in 1938, the Seacombe branch was omitted. The station was closed to passengers on 4 January 1960, although the line did continue to serve goods trains up until 1963. The route was then used to form the approach road to the Kingsway (Wallasey) Tunnel.^[1][2]

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Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Seacombe		LMS "Wirral Railway"		Bidston
		LMS "Wirral Railway"		Birkenhead North
		LMS "Wirral Railway"		Wallasey Village