Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension Railway

Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension Railway
Overview
Locale	Lancashire Merseyside
Technical
Track gauge	Standard gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Route map Legend NLEL Orrell Park Crosses LOPR Aintree Central Aintree Junction with LOPR Old Roan Sefton and Maghull Lydiate Altcar and Hillhouse Junction with LSPJR Barton Mossbridge Freshfield Crosses LCSR Ainsdale Ainsdale Beach Birkdale Palace Southport Lord Street

The Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway is a now-disused railway line in Merseyside, England. It was built by the Cheshire Lines Committee, extending the North Liverpool Extension Line to Southport in 1884. Passenger services ended 7 January 1952 and goods six months later. The line remained in intermittent use from Aintree to Altcar and Hillhouse to provide access to private sidings until May 1960, when the line was finally lifted.

The trackbed now forms part of National Cycle Network Route 62, the Trans Pennine Trail.

Route

Main line

• North Liverpool Extension Line
• Aintree Central, Aintree. 13 July 1880-7 November 1960.
• Southport Junction
• Junction with Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway
• Old Roan. (1884)
• Sefton and Maghull, Maghull. 1884-1952.
• Lydiate, Lydiate. 1884-1952.
• Altcar and Hillhouse, Altcar 1884-1952.
• Junction with Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway 1884.
• Mossbridge 1884-1917.
• Woodvale, Woodvale. 1884-1952.
• Ainsdale Beach, Ainsdale. 1901-1952.
• Birkdale Palace, Birkdale. 1884-1952.
• Southport Lord Street, Southport. 1884-1952.

External links

• Historic map of railways in Liverpool
• Childwall railway station