Tattenhall Road railway station

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Tattenhall Road
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General information
Location Tattenhall, Cheshire West and Chester
England
Grid reference SJ494604
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Grand Junction Railway
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 October 1840Opened as Tattenhall
1 August 1872Renamed Tattenhall Road
1957Renamed Tattenhall
18 April 1966Closed

Tattenhall Road railway station was a railway station situated a mile to the north of the village of Tattenhall, Cheshire on the Chester and Crewe Railway that was built in 1840 linking Chester to the north-west with Crewe to the south-east. The track now forms part of the North Wales Coast Line.

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The station was named Tattenhall Road in 1872 to distinguish it from another Tattenhall railway station, a little to the west of the village, on the Whitchurch and Tattenhall Railway branch line to Whitchurch.

The station took back the name Tattenhall when the branch line closed in 1957. It was then itself closed in 1966. [1] The station building still exists, now as a private house.

Services

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Beeston Castle and Tarporley
Line open, station closed
  London and North Western Railway
North Wales Coast line
  Black Dog
Line open, station closed

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References

  1. Oppitz, Leslie (1997). Cheshire Railways Remembered. Countryside Books. pp. 33, 147–148. ISBN   1-85306-458-0.

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