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The Birkenhead Railway was a railway company in North West England.It was incorporated as the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway (BL&CJR) in 1846 to build a line connecting the port of Birkenhead and the city of Chester with the manufacturing districts of Lancashire by making a junction near Warrington with the Grand Junction Railway.
Britain's private railway companies pioneered the concept of the railway hotel, initially at locations such as London Euston and Birmingham Curzon Street where hotels were opened at the start of trunk railway operation in 1839. Most of the railway companies followed suit, and by 1913 there were 93 railway owned hotels.
Birkenhead Central station was opened in 1886 as part of the Mersey Railway's route from Liverpool, via the Mersey Railway Tunnel under the River Mersey. The station was the location of the Mersey Railway's headquarters. The disused building of Birkenhead Central depot, which closed in the 1990s, remains adjacent to the platforms. The station ...
The hotel is in the city centre area of Norwich known as Tombland and is very close to Norwich Cathedral. Norwich railway station is 0.7 miles (1.1 km) south east of the hotel. The nearest airport is Norwich Airport and is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of the hotel [5]
Birkenhead Grange Lane railway station, a former station on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway; Birkenhead Hamilton Square railway station, an underground station on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network; Birkenhead Monks Ferry railway station, a former station on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway; Birkenhead North railway station, on the ...
The station was built by the Wirral Railway, replacing their earlier terminus at Wallasey Bridge Road (a short distance away), which had opened in 1866. The station was originally known as Birkenhead Docks and opened on 2 January 1888 as a through station with Birkenhead Park station becoming the new terminus. [1] Birkenhead North Station in 1961