Chester and Birkenhead Railway

Chester & Birkenhead Joint Railway
Birkenhead Dock Branch Cathcart Street Goods Birkenhead Monks Ferry Birkenhead Woodside Birkenhead Town Birkenhead Grange Lane Mersey Railway to Liverpool Central Tranmere Rock Ferry Rock Lane Bebington Port Sunlight Spital Bromborough Hooton Ledsham Capenhurst Mollington Upton-by-Chester to Holyhead and Shrewsbury Chester General to Manchester and Crewe

The Chester and Birkenhead Railway ran from Birkenhead to Chester, opened on 23 September 1840.[1] On 22 July 1847 the railway merged with the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway to become the Birkenhead Railway.

Currently Working

The lines between Birkenhead and Chester, together with the line from Hooton to Ellesmere Port (on the Helsby branch of the Birkenhead Railway), now form part of the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network.

Gallery

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  Detail of railway at Birkenhead
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  Detail of railway at Frodsham & Helsby

See also

• Birkenhead Railway
• List of rail trails

References

1. "Station Name: Birkenhead Grange Lane". Disused Stations. Retrieved 28 February 2016.

• Maund, T. B. (2001). The Birkenhead Railway: LMS & GW Joint. Railway Correspondence & Travel Society. ISBN 0-901115-87-8.
• Merseyside Railway History Group (1982). The Hooton to West Kirby Branch Line and the Wirral Way. Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. ISBN 0-904582-04-3.
• Vinter, Jeff (1990). Railway Walks: LMS. Stroud: Alan Sutton. ISBN 0-86299-734-8.

Further reading

• Whishaw, Francis (1842). The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland Practically Described and Illustrated (2nd ed.). London: John Weale. pp. 51–55. OCLC 833076248.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Disused Stations: Birkenhead Monks Ferry railway station