Chester and Birkenhead Railway

Chester and Birkenhead Railway
Legend Cathcart Street Birkenhead Docks Birkenhead Monks Ferry Birkenhead Woodside Birkenhead Town Mersey Railway Tranmere Rock Ferry Rock Lane Bebington Port Sunlight Spital Bromborough Hooton Ledsham Capenhurst Mollington North Wales Coast Line Chester General

The Chester and Birkenhead Railway ran from Birkenhead to Chester. It opened on 23 September 1838. On the 22 July 1847 it merged with the Birkenhead, Lancaster and Cheshire Junction Railway to become the Birkenhead Railway.

Currently Working

The lines between Birkenhead and Chester, together with the line from Hooton to Ellesmere Port (on the Helsby branch of the Birkenhead Railway), now form part of the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network.

See also

• Birkenhead Railway
• List of rail trails

References

• Maund T.B., (2001). The Birkenhead Railway: LMS & GW Joint, Railway Correspondence & Travel Society, ISBN 0901115878.
• 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.

External links

• Disused Stations: Birkenhead Monks Ferry railway station

Gallery

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  Detail of railway at Birkenhead

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  Detail of railway at Frodsham & Helsby