Train stations demolished /not in use

[kat2]

please scroll down to the bottom of this website page, it contains photographs of train stations around the UK from bygone days
can anyone remember any of them, interestingly I found the links to little tell tail signs such as reminants of walls, posts and a then and now photograph showing where the stations once stood.
I never knew Central Station was so big!
anyway heres the link enjoy looking back in history and lets see if anyone can spot any Markers (reminants)
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/
kat:)

[Kev]

nice to have u back Kat.

One station that has always facinated me is the one between Aigburth and St. Michaels. Otterspool I think it was called.

[kat2]

Nice to be back, I lost posting function for some reason, anyway, yes, I think there is a mention of the station you talk about in your post, I couldnt beleive the size of central station, or even the woodside station over here on the wirral with regular train services to london from the wirral!
look how clean and litter free some of the old black and white photographs are
no rubbish bins either!
kat
there is a photograph of that station taken in 1910, copy right John Alsop
look for liverpool then central station upper then scroll down and look for the links on the page to Otterspool.

[Cadfael]

nice to have u back Kat.

One station that has always facinated me is the one between Aigburth and St. Michaels. Otterspool I think it was called.


You ever seen the station house for that Kev? You could get to it at one point via Otterspool Park - maybe still can?

[jon_hall]

We used to use Exchange Station all the time till they closed it, as we were in Maghull at the time.

I currently live round the corner from it and overlook the car park now built on the old site.

Looking at those pics on that site, shows how as a kid you don't always remember things as the buildings on the right of Moorfields looking up to station don't register at all.

[ChrisGeorge]

please scroll down to the bottom of this website page, it contains photographs of train stations around the UK from bygone days
can anyone remember any of them, interestingly I found the links to little tell tail signs such as reminants of walls, posts and a then and now photograph showing where the stations once stood.
I never knew Central Station was so big!
anyway heres the link enjoy looking back in history and lets see if anyone can spot any Markers (reminants)
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/
kat:)

Very interesting, Kat! Many thanks! :handclap: :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

I just bought an old poscard of Central Station which makes me especially interested in the old and present views. So thanks again.

Chris

[SteH]

That site is brilliant and a minefield of information. In 1923 you could travel from Liverpool to Manchester in just 40 minutes, faster than now.

[Jericho]

You ever seen the station house for that Kev? You could get to it at one point via Otterspool Park - maybe still can?

Otterspool Road (aka Love Lane locally until it was gated and the loving stopped) still leads to the station house from Jericho Lane. The station house is occupied by someone in the black cab business. The platforms are all but gone. It was never well used. There used to be a goods siding between Otterspool and Mersey Road (now Aigburth). This, too, has disappeared

[goldenface]

I remember Riverside Station when it was derelict, you could walk inside and still se the old platforms and signal posts. Wavertree Station on Gainsborough Road also still has remnants left as does Sefton Park Station.

[shytalk]

Otterspool Road (aka Love Lane locally until it was gated and the loving stopped) still leads to the station house from Jericho Lane. The station house is occupied by someone in the black cab business. The platforms are all but gone. It was never well used. There used to be a goods siding between Otterspool and Mersey Road (now Aigburth). This, too, has disappeared

There was a 'photo of it on the forum a few months ago, with taxis outside. I can't find it and I forget which thread it was in.

[John_142]

There was a 'photo of it on the forum a few months ago, with taxis outside. I can't find it and I forget which thread it was in.

Thre is also a Station that is dissued on the Chester Line just before Bache called Upton By Chester for which at least one of the platforms are still there.

[Cadfael]

I always love cycling up and down the Loop Line and seeing where parts of the track or parts of the station platform wall's are still there. Probably the best 'preseved' part is the station at West Derby as they still have the original platforms in place.

[John_142]

I always love cycling up and down the Loop Line and seeing where parts of the track or parts of the station platform wall's are still there. Probably the best 'preseved' part is the station at West Derby as they still have the original platforms in place.


I used to like cycling along that cycle path to but i was put off by the ammount of glass and punchers i had when cycling along there.

But do admit i also like seeing were stations used to be and i especially like ringing my bell as i enter the tunnles and exit them just like the train do. (A bit childish but its fun).

[Ged]

The bike bell I take it :shock:

[John_142]

Yes the Bike bell as it would be difficult to ring any other type of bell when riding a bike wouldent it.!:handclap::unibrow:

[chippie]

Well it just so happens......on no forget it

[Ged]

Thanks for confirming that John because Chippie said he likes wringing his bell before entering the tunnel too :thumbsup:

[John_142]

DITTON is a Station for which is now closed down and now demolished and it seems to have been forgoten so far inb this thread !:unibrow:

Also on the Wigan to Manchester Line there is also a disused Station and also i see one on the way into MAN PIC but dont know the names thogh.

[Lukeo25]

Here is my list of demolished stations on the wirral and cheshire

Birkenhead Woodside closed 1967
Birkenhead Town closed 1967
Monks Ferry closed 1967
Ledsham closed ????
Mollington Closed ????
Upton By Chester Closed 1994
Warren
Grange Lane
If any pics post them :034:

[Scouseinmanc]

Here is my list of demolished stations on the wirral and cheshire

Birkenhead Woodside closed 1967
Birkenhead Town closed 1967
Monks Ferry closed 1967
Ledsham closed ????
Mollington Closed ????
Upton By Chester Closed 1994
Warren
Grange Lane
If any pics post them :034:


Hi Luke.

Go onto the superb Disused Stations website (Subterranea Britannica). Most of the closed stations in Liverpool & Wirral are listed, detailing opening & closing dates, along with pics of what the stations used to look like, compared to the same views today.

SiM

[Lukeo25]

i know about it

[Waterways]

Anyone know where this station exactly was?

[Cadfael]

Anyone know where this station exactly was?

Well Lane off Gateacre Park Drive.

[Waterways]

Got it:
Closed 1931.
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/c/childwall/index.shtml

Even when the new estates around there were being built in the 50/60s and the population increased greatly, the station would still be out on a limb as no direct route to Liverpool centre.

[ChrisO]

Does anyone have any info on the buffer stop that still appears to be in situ at the site of Exchange Station? You can just about catch a glimpse of it if you look up to your left as you drive down Leeds St. just before you get to the glass fronted building on the corner of Old Hall St.

[oritelad]

are you sure i have visited the site of exchange station many times it has all been redeveloped there is no excistance of platforms, rails, trackbed or anything? there is however interesting underground passage ways that have been blocked up that run under exchange station also the old wall is still there and the station booking hall building but thats it and if you go down the very bottom at where the platforms would of ended you will see the entrance to the waterloo tunnel that has resantly been cleared by merseyrail.

[oritelad]

i wish i could find more on warren station the one before New Brighton station

[Ged]

The only passageway I know of that runs under the old exchange line was the subway from Pall Mall (near the junction of Prussia St) which brought you out in Bixteth st near the Stadium. Along one side of this subway were gates/railings (like cages) for some reason? The entrances are now blocked up on both sides.

[ChrisO]

I'll get apicture of that buffer stop, I'm sure it's there. The only thing I know about Warren is on the subbrit/disused-stations site

[oritelad]

just been back to exhange station still never saw anything :(

[Aureol]

just been back to exhange station still never saw anything :(

It definately used to be there. You could see it from the train just before the tunnels at Leeds Street.

[skgogosfan]

DITTON is a Station for which is now closed down and now demolished and it seems to have been forgoten so far inb this thread !:unibrow:

Also on the Wigan to Manchester Line there is also a disused Station and also i see one on the way into MAN PIC but dont know the names thogh.

Ditton does seem to be overlooked,perhaps because people think station closures ended after Beeching's axe. That disused stations site was great though!

Dave.

[skgogosfan]

Incidentally,how about stations almost not in use,aka request stops. There are a few on the mid-wirral line that only get guaranteed stops in peak hours. The E. Port-Bank Quay* service only runs at peak hours too,and how nice it would be to be a station-master on the stops east to Helsby. ;)

[*it did a few years back,dunno if it's gotten any better since...]

Dave.

[DingleBoy]

Hey guys

I'm currently writing a horror serial set in contemporary Liverpool and I'd love to set some of it under the city. I'm researching the Williamson Tunnels, gonna go take a look next week, but I was wondering whether anyone has any links or stories about the underground - specifically, are there tunnels down there that don't get used anymore, where do they go, are there any ghost stories people know of set down there? Any help, signposting etc would be very gratefully received!!

Cheers

[Ronijayne]

Incidentally,how about stations almost not in use,aka request stops. There are a few on the mid-wirral line that only get guaranteed stops in peak hours. The E. Port-Bank Quay* service only runs at peak hours too,and how nice it would be to be a station-master on the stops east to Helsby. ;)

[*it did a few years back,dunno if it's gotten any better since...]

Dave.

Do we use the word 'gotten' now. Oh no, I tell the Americans every day there is no such word:shock:

[Paddy]

I had for-gotten it:unibrow:

[wallasey]

i wish i could find more on warren station the one before New Brighton station

Thats going wayyyyy back!

One of the Yesterday's of Wirral books has a image of it. But it was only a request stop for golfers. They closed it due to the amount of times it needed to be uncovered due to sand-drifting.

Its a shame Birkenhead Woodside was demolished. We could have had our own G-Mex overlooking the River!

[taffy]

Do we use the word 'gotten' now. Oh no, I tell the Americans every day there is no such word:shock:

Gotten of course is in use in American English. It's just one of the words we used to use in England that got lost in time but was retained in the US. Pocketbook and turnpike come to mind as others but there are many more.

[Scouseinmanc]

Its a shame Birkenhead Woodside was demolished. We could have had our own G-Mex overlooking the River!

I never saw Birkenhead Woodside for myself (a tad too young), but from the pictures I've seen, it was an architectural masterpiece! The station was huge, considering there were just 5 platforms.
It was a shame that it was built 'the wrong way round', with the beautiful Victorian portico, facing Cammell Lairds shipyard & not the Ferry Terminus, as was originally intended. Passengers never getting to see the huge stone fireplaces or massive timber roof trusses, that were meant to have been the booking office & waiting rooms. Instead they were only ever used for storing mail & suchlike.
Marcus Binney wrote in his 'Save Britain's Heritage' book, that it was "a station of truly baronial proportions & worthy of any London Terminus". A complete travesty that the building was demolished, like so many others (Birmingham Snow Hill, Liverpool Central High Level, Bradford Exchange, etc)...
If anyone has photos of Birkenhead Woodside (& not copied from the Subrit site) before, after closure & during demolition, they'd be great to see...! :)

[Waterways]

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?p=132450&highlight=woodside+station#post132450

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6398&d=1210107949

[Johnny Robbo]

If anyone has photos of Birkenhead Woodside (& not copied from the Subrit site) before, after closure & during demolition, they'd be great to see...! :)

Some Birkenhead Woodside photos attached, courtesy of National Railway Museum & Merseyside Railway History Group.

I can remember taking the train from Woodside to Plymouth in 1966. I think it closed the following year.

Johnny R

[gregs dad]

Birkenhead Museum has a scale layout of the Woodside rail and surround buildings
Its on my site http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/2360335815/

[scouse smurf]

Wow. I knew it was a station, but never knew it was so impressive.

Shame they go rid of so many excellent station buildings.

Was looking for a photo of the old Waterloo station (before they destroyed it with them horrible shelters), but can't find one. While I was looking, found this for sale on Ebay (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/rp990---Birkenhead-Park-Railway-Station---photo-6x4_W0QQitemZ290310162154QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ2009 0415?IMSfp=TL090415117005r914)

I used to use that station most days. I know the station is still in use now but ya can see how much the soul has been ripped out of it. Sorry couldn't find a good current photo of it

[Scouseinmanc]

Thanks everyone for your pics - keep em coming!

SiM :)

[Ged]

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[Kid_Amigo]

You know, there something fascinates me about various Train Stations for some reason and I feel a right geek :PDT_Xtremez_42:. I like looking at some of the small Stations along the Soutport Line as some have very pleasant surroundings, like Freshfields and Formby. Anyone got a spare Gagool?

[Waterways]

As a little kid I recall going into Woodside station. I recall it was dark, dirty and old and Victorian and had no big facade like Lime Street. It had no lasting positive impression. Looking at the model it was obviously built wrong, facing the wrong way and incorrect orientation. It should have been a joint ferry/rail station, where the passengers get off the ferry directly into the station, all under the same roof, with busses outside. Maybe that is too obvious.

[Scouseinmanc]

It wasn't down to the GWR that Woodside was built 'the wrong way round'. It was always intended that the 3 modes of transport (train, bus & ferry) were to be integrated. Unfortunately, at that time, both the bus & ferry companies were extremely slow & uncooporative, resulting in their terminus' being located in the position they are today.
In respect of the station being dark & dingy, like many other stations across the country, this was the result of years of pollution. I'm sure when it was fairly new it wasn't like that. Think of how St. Pancras looked prior to the refurb, it was exactly the same. I remember taking the train there from Manchester a few years back & thinking what a sorry state such a grand station had become. Now after being given a new lease of life, it looks clean, bright, airy & absolutley stunning.

[Cadfael]

Was looking at the Disused Stations website last night under Sub Brit and I was delighted to get a couple more pictures of the old Childwall Station and tracks as it was updated.

I had taken a nose at the updated Gateacre page and came across a picture I can't make head nor tail of.

11994

From what I can gather, there was an underground subway to get to the other side of the station but I've never come across this before - and as a regular on the loop line, I can't for the life of me find where it was or any clue.

Anyone any idea?? Gateacre Station was on Belle Vale Road.

[JMLE]

I'm not sure if it's exactly at Gateacre, but I think it's somewhere along that stretch, is the small remnant of a brick structure. I get on the loop line at Springfield Park and it's on the right when I'm heading towards Halewood. It's the base of a structure which is about three brick courses high and it's angled away from the track line. It should be visable again now that the trees have lost their leaves. Sorry I can't be more specific but I've always wondered what it was. I suppose it could have been toilets, a small signal box or, in light of your information, the entrance to a subway.