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Liscard and Poulton
The site of the former Liscard & Poulton railway station, now the approach road from the M53 mid Wirral motorway into the Wallasey Tunnel.
General information
Location	Wallasey, Wirral England
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Wirral Railway
Pre-grouping	Wirral Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 June 1895	Station opened
4 January 1960	Station closed

Liscard and Poulton railway station was located in Wallasey, Wirral, Cheshire and was an intermediate station on the Seacombe branch of the Wirral Railway.

History

The station opened to passengers on 1 June 1895, hosting regular passenger services to Wrexham, Chester, West Kirby and New Brighton. The station consisted of an island platform, located deep in a sandstone cutting accessed from a road bridge on Mill Lane, with a booking office at street level. A coal siding with an adjoining sloping approach road were also located at the station.

Passenger numbers were poor, although the line was also regularly used by goods traffic. When the majority of the Wirral Railway was electrified in 1938, the Seacombe branch was omitted.

Closure

The station was closed to passengers on 4 January 1960, although the line did continue to serve goods trains up until 1963. The route was then used to form the approach road to the Kingsway (Wallasey) Tunnel.

References

1. ^ Merseyside Railway History Group. Railway Stations of Wirral. Ian & Marilyn Boumphrey. p. 49. ISBN 1-899241-02-7.
2. "Disused Stations: Liscard & Poulton". Subterranea Britannica. Retrieved 22 May 2008.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2013). Wrexham to New Brighton. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 104-105. ISBN 9781908174475. OCLC 859543196.

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