
8D ASSOCIATION
The 8D Association is dedicated to promoting the history of the railways of South Lancashire, Merseyside and North Cheshire.
LNWR Liverpool Lime St to Speke Junction
Stations and Signal Boxes
The Association is looking for pre 1980 images of the stations and signal boxes on this line, the earlier the better. If you have any, we would be delighted to see them and with permission, may include them on this particular section. Please use the ‘contact’ facility on ths website. Thank You.
Stations.
This section covers the eight stations that have been or still in operation on this line. However one of these stations has been rebuilt completely and renamed on the site of one of the original station sites, so in theory there has only been seven stations in existence. Fortunately, five still are open with two completely closed.
Liverpool Lime Street
Opened in 1836 and enlarged in 1845 – 51 the station is still a grand terminus today. The station in its heyday had 12 platforms and two turntables but was cut back eventually to 9 platforms. In 2018 significant improvement work was carried out including reinstatement of platforms, revised trackwork and signalling which was completed late 2019. The station has now 10 platforms with five under each train shed roof. Majority of trains that head south tend to depart from the south train shed which is featured here. For further images, please see Liverpool and Manchester Railway section on this website.


Edge Hill
This station originally opened in August 1836 and is now one of the oldest railway stations in the country after it replaced the original station which opened in September 1830 with the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It has remained largely unchanged with the exception of the removal of the station canopies. The station only started serving lines to the south when the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway opened the section of line between Edge Hill and Speke in 1864 before being absorbed by the LNWR.

Wavertree
This station was opened 1st September 1870 by the LNWR and located near to Wellington Road. In 1891 the line was qualrupled and subsequently the station was rebuilt with access to the station was between the two bridges that supported the lines. The station was closed by British Railways on 5th August 1958 and nothing remains of the station at track level.
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Sefton Park
Opened by the LNWR on 1st June 1892 near to Smithdown Road and built on the embankment to the four lines. It got its name from the nearby large public park of Sefton Park. The station was closed on 2nd May 1960 by British Railways were nothing remains at track level although the booking office remains and used as business premises.
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If you have any images of this station, we would be most interested in viewing and putting them on this page for others to see.
Mossley Hill
This one of two stations opened by the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway when the line first opened on 15th February 1864. In July same year, SH & RG was taken into LNWR ownership and 1891 when the line was qualrupled, the station was rebuilt. It is located on Rose Lane were the road crosses the railway and it had originally been named as Mossley Hill for Aigburth. In the mid 1960’s, the station was rebuilt and ‘for Aigburth’ was dropped from the name in May 1974. The station remains open and is served by trains for Liverpool Lime St and Manchester Oxford Road via the CLC route.


West Allerton
This station was opened by the LMS on 2nd January 1939, located below Booker Avenue. It is just over 4 miles from Lime Street Station and half way between Mossley Hill and Allerton Stations. The original brick booking office remains in use although the platform wood built waiting rooms were replaced a few years ago with bus type shelters. It is served by Northern with trains to Liverpool Lime St and Manchester Oxford Road.



Allerton
Opened by the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway on 15th February 1864 and taken over by the LNWR in July of the same year. Located above Woolton Road, it was rebuilt in the 1950’s By British Railways in conjunction with the electrification of the Liverpool to Crewe section.The station had four platform faces with buildings of a similar style to the others reconstructed along the line. The station was in a fortunate location as it was next to South Liverpool FC football ground but on 30th July 2005 it was formally closed. However, Merseytravel had decided previously to construct an interchange station on the site and with taking the land of the football ground, a new station was contructed and named Liverpool South Parkway Station.



Liverpool South Parkway
This station opened on the 11th June 2006 at a cost of approx £33 million on the site of the former Allerton station. Liverpool South Parkway was built as a major interchange station and constructed of renewable materials as well as being energy efficient. With the closure of Garston Station on the CLC Merseyrail line, it physically connect both the CLC line and LNWR line with the building of low level platforms giving the station 6 platforms in total. The station is also an interchange with local buses providong a direct link to Liverpool John Lennon Airport, along with a large car park providong a park and ride facility.


SIGNAL BOXES
This section will cover the signal boxes that have been on this line between Wavertree Junction and Allerton Junction. Currently this is work in progress while the information is gathered. In the meantime, we are interested in seeing images of the signal boxes on this line and would welcome them to be included on this section.
Allerton Junction
There has been two signal boxes at this location with the original one, a LNWR box was in existence until 1966 when the electricification took place of the line along with a revised junction created to join up with the CLC line. The new box was built in 1965 / 66 and became operational in September 1966. The box was closed September 2018 when all signalling was transferred to the Manchester Railway Operating Centre.

