Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway

Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway
Waterloo Station
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Southport Chapel Street Railroad Manchester and Southport Railway Southport Eastbank Street Birkdale Hillside Ainsdale Freshfield Formby Formby Power Station Altcar Rifle Range Hightown Hall Road Blundellsands & Crosby Waterloo Seaforth & Litherland North Mersey Branch Bootle New Strand Bootle Village according to Bankfield Goods Bootle Oriel Road Miller's Bridge Bank Hall Liverpool and Bury Railway to North Dock Goods Sandhills after Great Howard Street Goods to Moorfields Liverpool Exchange

The Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway (LC&SR) is an English railway company that operated a railway line between Liverpool's Sandhills station and Southport . The construction was approved by Parliament on July 2, 1847. The route was opened on July 24, 1848 with a temporary terminus in Waterloo .

history

The railway line was extended on May 13, 1850 from Waterloo to Liverpool Tithebarn Street / Liverpool Exchange. This double name of the station was later changed to Liverpool Exchange Station . The terminus in Southport was initially on Eastbank Street before the local station was closed and the current station on Chapel Street opened on August 22, 1851.

The railway company was taken over on June 14, 1855 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR). The LYR electrified the railway line with a conductor rail , which began operating on April 5, 1904. The LYR was merged with the London and North Western Railway on January 1, 1922 , which was eventually transferred to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway with the Railway Act 1921 in 1923 .

As part of the shutdowns of the Beeching Plan in the 1960s, this route was also intended to be closed. In 1978 it was integrated into the Merseyrail route network within the Northern Line , with operations being handled by British Rail until privatization in 1995 . The current operator is the Serco Abellio consortium, which has been operating the route on behalf of Merseyrail since 2003.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Christopher Awdry: Encyclopedia of British Railway Companies . Wellingborough 1990, p. 88 .
2. ↑ Disused Stations: Liverpool Exchange Station . Retrieved November 10, 2014.
3. ↑ RVJ Butt: The Directory of Railway Stations . Wellingborough 1995, p. 145 .
4. ↑ RVJ Butt: The Directory of Railway Stations . Wellingborough 1995, p. 216 .

literature

• Christopher Awdry: Encyclopedia of British Railway Companies . Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough 1990, ISBN 1-85260-049-7 (English).
• RVJ Butt: The Directory of Railway Stations . Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough 1995, ISBN 1-85260-049-7 (English).