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Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway

Introduction

This railway is open. It runs north from Liverpool to Southport.

Dates

24/07/1848	Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway Ainsdale opened.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.

From Liverpool to Southport

Sandhills Junction

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See also
Liverpool and Walton Joint Railway (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and East Lancashire Railway)

508112 is on the Southport tracks at Sandhills Junction and slowing for the sharp curve into Bank Hall station on 7th December 2022. The tracks in the ...
Mark Bartlett 07/12/2022

Liverpool bound at Sandhills Junction. ...
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Bank Hall

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508136 negotiates the sharp curve from Sandhills Junction on 7th December 2022 and draws into the island platform at Bank Hall station, first stop on ...
Mark Bartlett 07/12/2022

Looking towards Liverpool from the surviving island platform at Bank Hall on 7th December 2022. The street level booking office, still staffed, has ...
Mark Bartlett 07/12/2022

508111 in 'Beatles' livery departs from Bank Hall on 28 December 2019 while working a Southport to Hunts Cross service. Bank Hall MPD was a short ...
John McIntyre 28/12/2019

Bank Hall station frontage from across the road with the tracks passing underneath either side of the building. ...
John McIntyre 28/12/2019

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507029 calls at Bootle Oriel Road with a Southport to Hunts Cross service on 28 December 2019. The station is one of the newer designs on the Northern ...
John McIntyre 28/12/2019

A Southport to Hunts Cross EMU crosses the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bootle on 1st December 2022. The two Bootle stations, Oriel Road and New ...
Mark Bartlett 01/12/2022

508120 works ecs through Bootle Oriel Road heading from Kirkdale Depot towards Southport on 1st December 2022. Seeing an empty stock movement was due ...
Mark Bartlett 01/12/2022

Looking north to Bootle Oriel Road. ...
Ewan Crawford //

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Bootle New Strand

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A Hunts Cross bound 507032 slows to call at Bootle New Strand, on the Southport line, on 1st December 2022. ...
Mark Bartlett 01/12/2022

Looking north at Bootle New Strand as a Hunts Cross to Southport service departs on 28 December 2019. The one thing I associate with Bootle is the tax ...
John McIntyre 28/12/2019

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Marsh Lane Junction

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Seaforth and Litherland

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Once a four platform station, complete with canopies, Seaforth and Litherland is now much reduced. The outer two platforms have been removed, and just ...
Mark Bartlett 07/12/2022

Looking north on the island platform at Seaforth and Litherland as 507011 prepares to depart with a Southport to Hunts Cross service on 28 December ...
John McIntyre 28/12/2019

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Waterloo [Merseyside] [1st]

This station was briefly the terminus of the line from 1848 to 1850. It was replaced by Waterloo [Merseyside] in 1881. ...

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Waterloo [Merseyside]

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507010, heading for Southport, calls at Waterloo on 7th December 2022. The L&YR platform canopy is long gone but there is still a covered stairway ...
Mark Bartlett 07/12/2022

507011 calls at Waterloo on 28 December 2019 on a Southport to Hunts Cross service. The station is an island platform and the northbound services are ...
John McIntyre 28/12/2019

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Blundellsands and Crosby

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A group has been formed to try to preserve a Merseyrail Class 507 EMU. https://www.class507.org.uk/ Initially, they have set their sights on pioneer ...
Mark Bartlett 01/11/2023

A Southport to Hunts Cross service calls at Blundellsands and Crosby on 8 June 2021. As appeared usual on Southport line services this was a 6-car ...
John McIntyre 08/06/2021

The Liverpool platform entrance to Blundellsands and Crosby station, on the right, and the subway to the far side from which there are stairs to both ...
Mark Bartlett 03/11/2020

507013 pulls away from Blundellsands and Crosby, heading for Liverpool, with the pick up shoes sparking during a sudden hailstorm on 3rd November ...
Mark Bartlett 03/11/2020

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Hall Road

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One of Merseyrail's elderly EMU sets, 508108, leaves Hall Road with a Southport to Hunts Cross service on 3rd November 2020. ...
Mark Bartlett 03/11/2020

507015 arrives at Hall Road on an afternoon Southport to Hunts Cross service on 26th January 2023. The site of the EMU depot on the left has been ...
Roger Geach 26/01/2023

507012 and 508111 arrive at Hall Road on 8 June 2021, with a Southport to Hunts Cross service. There is a contrast in architecture with the ...
John McIntyre 08/06/2021

Nice to see that the old platform buildings at Hall Road have been retained and refurbished rather than replaced. 508108 calls on its way towards ...
Mark Bartlett 03/11/2020

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Hall Road Depot

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These two tall houses, and the residential road that runs between them, occupy the site of the old LMS EMU depot at Hall Road. Seen here in November ...
Mark Bartlett 03/11/2020

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Hightown

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507033 leaves Hightown heading for Liverpool and Hunts Cross on 24th May 2023. The station footbridge is on the site of a long closed level crossing, ...
Mark Bartlett 01/06/2023

508104 slows to call at Hightown with a Southport to Hunts Cross service on 3rd November 2020. The level crossing that was once at this end of the ...
Mark Bartlett 03/11/2020

A Southport - Liverpool Central EMU arrives at Hightown station on the Merseyrail Northern line on Sunday afternoon 26 June 2011. Like many stations ...
John McIntyre 26/06/2011

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Altcar Rifle Range

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Formby

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I ventured out on 7 September 2021 to try to photograph one of Merseyrail's new Class 777 units out on test between Sandhills and Southport. On Monday ...
John McIntyre 07/09/2021

Looking north from Eccles Crossing towards Formby station on 3rd November 2020. The L&YR signal box that formerly controlled the level crossing is ...
Mark Bartlett 03/11/2020

A Liverpool bound service, with 508141 on the rear of a 6 car
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John McIntyre 26/06/2011

The station entrance and booking office on the road overbridge at Formby, seen in June 2011. Note the station name and LYR logo displayed within the ...
John McIntyre 26/06/2011

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Freshfield

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508125 runs non-stop through Freshfield with an ecs working from Kirkdale to Hillside (and back) on 24th May 2023. From RTT I had expected a new 777 ...
Mark Bartlett 24/05/2023

On the Liverpool to Southport Merseyrail Northern line, Freshfield
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John McIntyre 26/06/2011

Freshfield station is close to the National Trust's Formby sand dunes area and popular with visitors, hence the party of ramblers on the Liverpool ...
Mark Bartlett 17/03/2009

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Ainsdale

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This striking ticket office is a recent construction at Ainsdale station, sited on the Southport bound platform and viewed here from the level ...
Mark Bartlett 24/05/2023

507007 brings up the rear of a pair of EMUs heading for Liverpool, leaving Ainsdale on 3rd November 2020. New Class 777 trains are being commissioned ...
Mark Bartlett 03/11/2020

A Merseyrail service from Hunts Cross to Southport approaches Ainsdale station on 26 June 2011. The height of the unused section of the Up platform is ...
John McIntyre 26/06/2011

Viewed from a road bridge to the south of the station, 507013 slows to call at Ainsdale with a Southport bound service on 3rd November 2020. ...
Mark Bartlett 03/11/2020

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Hillside [Southport]

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Passing the L&YR Birkdale substation, 508112 slows to call at Hillside with a Southport bound service on 15th March 2023. Hillside was an LMS ...
Mark Bartlett 15/03/2023

Hillside is an LMS station dating from 1926 and so doesn't have the L&YR canopies that are a feature of nearby Birkdale. I'm not sure where the ...
Mark Bartlett 15/03/2023

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Birkdale [1st]

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Birkdale

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A Merseyrail service to Southport calls at Birkdale on 19 May 2013. ...
John McIntyre 19/05/2013

A Liverpool bound EMU arrives at Birkdale station on 19 May 2013. ...
John McIntyre 19/05/2013

Passing the redundant signal box at Birkdale is 508112, heading north towards Southport. Only a mile separates Birkdale station from Southport but ...
Mark Bartlett 15/02/2013

Restored glass and wrought iron canopies are still in place at Birkdale, a suburb of Southport, and are seen to good effect on 15 February 2013 as ...
Mark Bartlett 15/02/2013

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East Bank Street

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Southport South Junction

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See also
Southport Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and East Lancashire Railway Joint)

Southport

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Southport Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and East Lancashire Railway Joint)

Northern's Class 769 769456 stands at Southport with the 11.16 to Alderley Edge. The Class 769 were originally Class 319 but are now modified with ...
Don Chattwood 24/09/2022

Pioneer Class 507 3rd Rail EMU 507001 is seen departing from Southport at 14.34 with the delayed 14.27 2U36 service to Hunts Cross on 14 July 2023. On ...
David Pesterfield 14/07/2023

Following the most recent timetable change, the Southport to Alderley Edge services have been cut back to Manchester Oxford Road. The other trains ...
Mark Bartlett 15/03/2023

Pioneer Class 507 3rd Rail EMU 507001 is seen departing from Southport station with the slightly delayed 14.27 2U36 Merseyrail working to Hunts Cross ...
David Pesterfield 14/07/2023

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Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway

Introduction

Dates

Portions of line and locations

From Liverpool to Southport

Sandhills Junction

Bank Hall

Bootle Junction

Miller's Bridge

Bootle Oriel Road

Bootle New Strand

Marsh Lane Junction

Seaforth and Litherland

Waterloo [Merseyside] [1st]

Waterloo [Merseyside]

Blundellsands and Crosby

Hall Road

Hall Road Depot

Hightown

Altcar Rifle Range

Formby

Freshfield

Ainsdale

Hillside [Southport]

Birkdale [1st]

Birkdale

East Bank Street

Southport South Junction

Southport

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