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The Birkenhead Railway is shown in yellow and red. A joint station was opened at Chester on 1 August 1848; it cost £55,000 and was to be jointly operated and accessible to the LNWR, Chester and Holyhead Railway, Shrewsbury and Chester Railway (S&CR), and Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway. [7] [8]
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 ...
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The Wirral Railway subsequently became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, which renamed the station Birkenhead North in 1926. [3] The line through Birkenhead North was electrified, using a 650 V DC third rail system, [ 4 ] and brought into passenger service on 14 March 1938, [ 5 ] allowing through services from New Brighton to ...
The station opened as the eastern terminus of the Hoylake Railway in 1866. With the opening of the horse drawn Woodside and Birkenhead Dock Street Tramway in 1873, [2] the station probably became the world's first tram to train interchange station. [1] [3] The station was closed to passengers in 1888 being superseded by Birkenhead Docks railway ...
The site, on which the station was built, was to the east of Birkenhead's original railway terminus at Grange Lane, which closed in 1844. [1] To the north lay two tunnel entrances; the first, completed in 1844, led to the town's second terminus at Monks Ferry.