Otterspool railway station

Otterspool
Otterspool railway station.
General information
Location	Otterspool, Liverpool England
Coordinates	53°22′07″N2°56′07″W / 53.3685°N 2.9353°W / 53.3685; -2.9353
Grid reference	SJ378862
Platforms	2 [1] [2] [3]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Garston and Liverpool Railway
Pre-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Post-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Key dates
1 June 1864 (1864-06-01)	Opened [1]
5 March 1951	Closed [1]
Location

v t e Cheshire Lines Committee
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 (Sefton Arms) Aintree Central North Mersey Branch Warbreck Orrell Park Langton Dock Branch ｜to Kirkby Walton Rice Lane Northern line 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 Crewe–Liverpool line Hunts Cross to Manchester Central

Otterspool station was a railway station in Liverpool, England. It was located between St Michaels and Aigburth stations on the Garston and Liverpool Railway.

The station was built on the site of the house in which the astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks was born in about 1618. ^[4]

The station opened in 1864 and was absorbed into the Cheshire Lines Committee in 1865. It closed in 1951 due to low passenger numbers. The station was at the end of a long and otherwise empty dirt lane which runs alongside Otterspool Park from Jericho Lane. The lane and the station building still exist, but the main building is now a private dwelling, with a subsidiary building beside it lying derelict. Whatever may remain of the platforms cannot be seen under vegetation.

References

1. "Station Name: Otterspool". Disused Stations. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
2. Linsley 2000, p. 160.
3. Gell 1985, p.29 & Front Cover.
4. Clerke, Agnes Mary (1891). "Horrocks, Jeremiah"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 373.

Sources

• Gell, Rob (1985). An Illustrated Survey of Liverpool's Railway Stations 1830-1985. Crosby, Merseyside: Heyday Publishing. ISBN   978-0-947562-03-8.
• Linsley, Robin (2000). Railways in camera : archive photographs of the great age of steam from the Public Record Office : 1860-1913. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. ISBN   978-1-84015-109-1.

External links

• The station's history Disused Stations
• The station and local lines on multiple maps Rail Maps Online
• The station on a 25" Edwardian OS Map National Library of Scotland
• The station on line HXS1, with mileages Railway Codes

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
St Michaels Line and station open		Cheshire Lines Committee Garston and Liverpool Railway		Mersey Road and Aigburth Line and station open