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West Kirby railway station

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The station for the Hooton line was to the east of the current station. The station was along the alignment of what is now Orrysdale Road, between Bridge Road and Grange Road, and was equipped with a small turntable. The station was single-platformed, and a single-storey building provided passenger
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via Hooton. The station closed to passengers on 17 September 1956, and closed completely on 7 May 1962. The station site is now the location for several civic buildings, and the route all the way to Hooton is now a footpath, known as The Wirral Way, which forms part of the
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during the tournament. This was to allow competitors to cross the tracks from the practice course on one side to the championship course on the other. This caused some controversy locally, especially given the large increase in passengers during the championship.
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The Birkenhead Joint branch station was effectively a separate facility to the main station on the electric lines. There was a junction between the two lines, underneath the Bridge Road overbridge. However, very few train movements connected between them.
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which, up until that point, had only ever run from Liverpool to Birkenhead Park. The 230 ft (70 m) concrete platform awning was erected, at the time of the 1938 electrification, along with a similar structure at
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frontage. A further platform was constructed for the Hooton line, on the eastern side of the original station. The site of the original station was used for goods sidings. In the present day, this is the site of
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for 16 bicycles and secure storage for 10 bicycles. The station is staffed, at all times during opening hours, has departure and arrival screens for passenger information, and platform
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The only significant train along this route was a once-daily through service, often just one or two coaches, which ran until 1939. This service was from New Brighton, via
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Through electric services commenced on 13 March 1938, when the LMS electrified the lines from Birkenhead Park to West Kirby. The service was provided by the then-new
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branch station. The depot was mainly used to receive coal for domestic distribution. The area occupied by the freight depot was later used for the construction of
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There was an active freight depot, until 1964, on the eastern side of the station. The freight depot occupied the triangular area between the former
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Much of the station building has been rented out as retail units, accessed from the public road rather than from the railway premises.
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Junction Diagram showing (centre) railways in the vicinity of West Kirby (present station on left; C&BR station on right)
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train. A principal traffic was scholars travelling from stations along the route to the secondary schools in West Kirby.
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In its final years, the almost-unused line was employed for the training of diesel multiple unit crews operating from
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network. There is a central island platform between two terminus tracks and two parallel sidings for out-of-use
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was authorised to construct two extensions to its lines. One was a short connecting section near to
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to West Kirby. The station and the extension were opened on 1 April 1878 as the terminus of the
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watering facilities at the southern end of the platform, and a passing loop.
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West Kirby's station for trains from Hooton opened on 19 April 1886 when the
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Current services are every 15 minutes (Monday to Saturday daytime) to
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access to the platform is straightforward, with no steps to ascend.
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station, which received the electrified lines, and the former
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Steel Wheels to Deeside - The Wirral Railway past and present
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Railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
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The station also had 8: 512:04.09.82 West Kirby Class 503s (6887476467) 2283: 2269: 2261: 1653: 1639: 1631: 1348: 1334: 1326: 1229: 992:"Record number take the train to the Open" 799: 797: 795: 770: 768: 766: 734: 732: 730: 728: 256: 42: 20: 1150:Merseyside Railway History Group (1982). 753: 751: 749: 747: 703: 701: 699: 362:in 1886, carriages were operated through 832: 1126:The Wirral Railway and its Predecessors 830: 828: 826: 824: 822: 820: 818: 816: 814: 812: 695: 639: 908: 906: 586:and a drop-off point for cars, with a 16:Railway station in Merseyside, England 2760:Railway stations served by Merseyrail 941:"Station ready after £600,000 revamp" 897: 885: 873: 861: 803: 786: 774: 757: 738: 719: 707: 7: 2679:Rail transport in the United Kingdom 1217:for West Kirby railway station from 1177:Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). 1152:The Hooton to West Kirby Branch Line 1128:. 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Index

Merseyrail

West Kirby
Wirral
Grid reference
SJ213869
Merseyrail
Merseytravel
DfT category
Office of Rail and Road

West Kirby
Merseyside
Wirral Line
Merseyrail
electric multiple units
Hooton
Hoylake and Birkenhead Railway
Birkenhead docks
Hoylake
Wirral Railway
Birkenhead Park station
signal box
London and North Western Railway
Mersey Railway Tunnel
Birkenhead Park
James Street station
Liverpool
Hooton
mock Tudor

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