Parkgate railway station

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Parkgate
Taken from the Wirral Way just north of the station where Brooklands Road and Wood Lane cross[1].
Location
Location The Wirral
Area Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
Grid reference SJ283781
Operations
Pre-grouping (1866-1923)West Kirby-Hooton branch of the
Chester and Birkenhead Railway[2]
Post-grouping (1923 to 1948)LMS
(1948 to 1956)London Midland Region (British Railways) [3]
Platforms 2
History
1 October 1866 First station opened
19 April 1886 Second station opened
17 September 1956[4] Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom

Closed railway stations in Britain
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Portal:Parkgate railway station
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Parkgate railway station was a station on the single track Chester and Birkenhead Railway Hooton to West Kirby branch which opened in 1866 that served the eponymous community on the west coast of the Wirral peninsula. A second station was built twenty years later with the old buildings being retained as a Goods Yard. Once motor transport reached the area passenger numbers dwindled[5] and in 1956 the station was closed to passengers (although the track continued to be used for driver training for another eight years[6]). A decade later the track bed was lifted and a footpath laid to create Britain’s first Country Park[7].

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Neston South railway station   Chester and Birkenhead Railway
Wirral Way		   Heswall

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Article On the track of a country park by Christiansen,R in The Countryman Autumn 1977(Gill,C-Ed)
  2. ^ Owned jointly by the London and North Western Railway and the Great Western Railway
  3. ^ Although freight services continued until the Sixties
  4. ^ Freight closure 7 May 1962
  5. ^ Enthusiasts web-site
  6. ^ "The Hooton to West Kirby Branch", Merseyside Railway History Group(Scheele,R(Ed): Birkenhead, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral,1982 ISBN 0904582043
  7. ^ Details of park