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Birkenhead Central is a railway station serving the town of Birkenhead, in Merseyside, England. Located on the south side of Birkenhead town centre, it lies on the Chester and Ellesmere Port branches of the Wirral Line , part of the Merseyrail network.
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.
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.
Birkenhead North railway station serves the town of Birkenhead, in Merseyside, England. The station is situated on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network, close to the junction of the New Brighton and West Kirby branches. Birkenhead North TMD, situated just to the west of the station, is the main traction maintenance depot for the Merseyrail ...
Birkenhead railway station may refer to: Birkenhead Central railway station, the main station in Birkenhead, Wirral, England; Birkenhead Dock railway station, a ...
The station replaced the Wirral Railway's original terminus at Wallasey Bridge Road, which was close to the present-day Birkenhead North station. The station was an interchange between the Wirral Railway's line to West Kirby and the Mersey Railway's new line to Liverpool Central low level station .
The first electric train passenger service ran through the station on 3 May 1903, with a 650 V DC fourth rail system [3] and Mersey Railway electric units built by Westinghouse. Despite the journey being far quicker than travel aboard the Mersey Ferry service, passengers were not keen on travelling underground due to the smoke from the previous ...
Birkenhead Woodside railway station was opened on March 31, 1878, to replace the increasingly inadequate passenger facilities provided at Birkenhead Monks Ferry station. [3] [4] The terminus was constructed further inland than originally planned to avoid the demolition of the Mersey ferries workshop situated on the riverbank.