Gateacre railway station

Gateacre
General information
Location	Gateacre, Liverpool England
Coordinates	53°23′05″N2°51′36″W / 53.3846°N 2.8599°W / 53.3846; -2.8599 Coordinates: 53°23′05″N2°51′36″W / 53.3846°N 2.8599°W / 53.3846; -2.8599
Grid reference	SJ429879
Line(s)	North Liverpool Extension Line
Platforms	2 [1] [2]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Cheshire Lines Committee
Pre-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Post-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Key dates
1 December 1879	Station opened to passengers as "Gateacre (for Woolton)"
March 1882	Opened for goods
4 December 1965	Closed for goods
15 April 1972	Closed completely [3] [4]

A 1909 Map showing the line which is the red line to the right running south-east to north-west

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Legend
Merseyside Lines
Southport Lord Street Birkdale Palace to Southport Ainsdale Ainsdale Beach Northern line Woodvale Freshfield to Liverpool Central Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway Barton Mossbridge Hillhouse Junction Altcar and Hillhouse Lydiate Sefton and Maghull to Ormskirk Old Roan Aintree Junction Southport Junction Aintree Central Aintree Northern line Warbreck Orrell Park Walton to Kirkby Rice Lane to Liverpool Central Fazakerley Junctions Walton on the Hill Huskisson Clubmoor West Derby Knotty Ash & Stanley Broad Green City Line Childwall Gateacre Northern line Liverpool Central Liverpool Central High Level St James Brunswick (original) Egerton Street Junction Brunswick St Michaels Otterspool Aigburth Cressington to Lime Street Garston Liverpool South Parkway Hunts Cross West Junction Hunts Cross to Manchester Central

Gateacre (for Woolton) railway station was located on the North Liverpool Extension Line on the north side of Belle Vale Road, Gateacre, Liverpool, England. Next door was the Black Bull public house which still stands.

Official maps, tickets, timetables, a large exterior station sign and platform nameboards variously refer to the station as "Gateacre", "Gateacre, for Woolton", "Gateacre for Woolton" and "Gateacre & Woolton". "Gateacre" is pronounced "Gattiker."

The station had outlived those on the same line north of Aintree by twenty years and all the remainder by twelve years when it closed to passengers on 15 April 1972. It had latterly been the suburban terminus of the sole residual service from Liverpool Central (High Level). It was planned that the station would reopen as the southern terminus of Merseyrail's Northern Line. This never occurred, with Hunts Cross becoming the terminus. The tracks through the station site were used for freight trains to Liverpool Docks until 1975. They were lifted in early 1979.

By 2015 the trackbed though the station site formed part of the Trans Pennine Trail.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Hunts Cross Line closed, station open		Cheshire Lines Committee North Liverpool Extension Line		Childwall Line and station closed
Halewood Line closed, station open

References

1. Bolger 1984, pp. 44–45.
2. Pixton 2007, pp. 38–39.
3. Bolger 1984, pp. 10–11.
4. Butt 1995, p. xxx.

Sources

• Bolger, Paul (1984). An Illustrated History of the Cheshire Lines Committee. Merseyside: Heyday Publishing Company. ISBN   978-0-947562-00-7.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
• Pixton, Bob (2007). Liverpool Manchester 2:Cheshire Lines. Southampton: Kestrel Railway Books. ISBN   978-1-905505-03-6.

External links

• "The station's history". Disused Stations UK.
• "The station on a 1948 O.S. map". npe Maps.
• "The station on an 1888 OS map overlay". National Library of Scotland.
• "The station and line HTS". railwaycodes.
• "The trackbed". Sustrans.
• "The station signalbox". Liverpool Connections.
• "The residual service". 8D Association.
• "Gateacre and its station". Brian Daugherty.