Gateacre (for Woolton) railway station was located on the North Liverpool Extension Line on the north side of Belle Vale Road, Gateacre, Liverpool, England. Next door was the Black Bull public house which still stands.
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General information | |
Location | Gateacre, Liverpool England |
Coordinates | 53.3846°N 2.8599°W / 53.3846; -2.8599 |
Grid reference | SJ429879 |
Line(s) | North Liverpool Extension Line |
Platforms | 2[1][2] |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Cheshire Lines Committee |
Pre-grouping | Cheshire Lines Committee |
Post-grouping | Cheshire Lines Committee |
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1 December 1879 | Station opened to passengers as "Gateacre (for Woolton)" |
March 1882 | Opened for goods |
4 December 1965 | Closed for goods |
15 April 1972 | Closed completely[3][4] |
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Official maps, tickets, timetables, a large exterior station sign and platform nameboards variously refer to the station as "Gateacre", "Gateacre, for Woolton", "Gateacre for Woolton" and "Gateacre & Woolton". "Gateacre" is pronounced "Gattiker."
The station had outlived those on the same line north of Aintree by twenty years and all the remainder by twelve years when it closed to passengers on 15 April 1972. It had latterly been the suburban terminus of the sole residual service from Liverpool Central (High Level). It was planned that the station would reopen as the southern terminus of Merseyrail's Northern Line. This never occurred, with Hunts Cross becoming the terminus. The tracks through the station site were used for freight trains to Liverpool Docks until 1975. They were lifted in early 1979.
By 2015 the trackbed though the station site formed part of the Trans Pennine Trail.
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Hunts Cross Line closed, station open |
Cheshire Lines Committee North Liverpool Extension Line |
Childwall Line and station closed | ||
Halewood Line closed, station open |
Closed railway stations in Merseyside | ||
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Birkenhead Railway | ||
Canada Dock Branch |
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Chester and Birkenhead Railway | ||
Lancashire Union Railway | ||
Liverpool and Manchester Railway | ||
Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway | ||
Liverpool Overhead Railway |
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Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway | ||
Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway |
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Manchester and Southport Railway | ||
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board | ||
North Mersey Branch |
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North Wales and Liverpool Railway | ||
St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway | ||
West Lancashire Railway | ||
Wirral Railway | ||
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