Southport London Street railway station

Southport London Street
General information
Location	Southport, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton England
Coordinates	53°38′43″N3°00′00″W / 53.6454°N 2.9999°W / 53.6454; -2.9999
Grid reference	SD339170
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Opened	9 April 1855 (1855-04-09)
Closed	1 April 1857 (1857-04-01)
Original company	East Lancashire Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Location

v t e Southport/Aintree lines
Legend
West Lancashire Rly to Preston Meols Cop Ash Street Butts Lane Halt Southport Central Southport London Street St Luke's Southport Chapel Street Southport Lord Street Manchester–Southport line Birkdale Palace Kew Gardens Ainsdale Beach Heathey Lane Halt Ainsdale Shirdley Hill New Cut Lane Halt Liverpool, Crosby & Southport Railway Halsall Woodvale Plex Moss Lane Halt Mossbridge Barton Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Rly Liverpool, Southport & Preston Junction Rly Altcar and Hillhouse Lydiate Northern line to Ormskirk Sefton and Maghull Old Roan Aintree (CLC) Aintree (L&Y) Northern line to Kirkby Ford North Mersey Branch Aintree Racecourse Fazakerley Aintree (L&Y) Orrell Park Northern line to Liverpool Northern line to Liverpool North Liverpool Extension Line

Southport London Street was a railway station in Southport, Merseyside.

History

It opened on 9 April 1855 as the East Lancashire Railway's terminus for the Manchester and Southport Railway, a line that it had acquired and jointly operated with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. ^[1]

The station closed on 1 April 1857, with all services transferred to the adjacent Southport Chapel Street, though the station buildings remained in use as a 'repairing shed' (according to the 1894 Ordnance Survey). ^{[1] [2] [3]}

An expansion of Chapel Street in 1914 swallowed the site completely, though its name was preserved with platforms 12 and 13 dubbed the "London Street Excursion Platforms". ^[4] When Chapel Street was rebuilt in the early 1970s, the excursion platforms were filled in to make space for a car park.

References

1. Quick 2023, p. 424.
2. Marshall 1969, p. 158.
3. Lancashire LXXV.9 (Map). 25 inch. Ordnance Survey. 1894.
4. Gell 1986.

Bibliography

• Gell, Rob (1986). An Illustrated Survey of Railway Stations Between Southport & Liverpool 1848-1986. Heyday Publishing Company. ISBN   0-947562-04-4. (No page numbers.)
• Marshall, John (1969). The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. Vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN   978-0-7153-4352-4.
• Quick, Michael (2023) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.05. Railway & Canal Historical Society.

Further reading

• Gahan, John W. (1985). Seaport to Seaside. Countywise Limited. pp. 91–93. ISBN   0-907768-07-5., and Avon Anglia Publications, ISBN   0-905466-73-X.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Bescar Lane		East Lancashire Railway Manchester and Southport Railway		Terminus