Notes: Canada Dock Station was situated on the London & North Western Railway’s (LNWR) Bootle Branch which ran from Edge Hill via the northern suburbs of Liverpool to the northern Docks at Bootle. The line was primarily opened to cater for goods traffic and it opened from Edge Hill to Stanley on the 1st of June 1866 and through to Canada Dock on the15th of October 1866. Initially passenger services only ran as far as Tue Brook. At Bootle a large goods station was developed close to the Canada Dock on both sides of Derby Road.
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Canada Dock passenger Station opened as Bootle on the 1st July 1870 when the LNWR extended its Bootle Branch passenger service through to Bootle. The passenger station was located within the goods station complex on the east side of Derby Road. The passenger station building was on the east side of Derby Road. It was a single storey brick built building |
with a pitched roof which housed the booking office and all of the usual facilities. As the railway was at a lower elevation than street level the station was elevated above the line and supported by iron pillars. From the rear of the building a wooden stairway led down to a long single platform which was not provided with any shelters. A brick wall at the rear of the platform protected passengers from the goods lines that passed behind it.
From the beginning the station was served by trains that ran to Liverpool Lime Street via the cities eastern suburbs. The service was mostly used by employees of the various dock and shipping companies.
On the 5th September 1881 a branch was opened from the Canada Dock line just to the east of the Bootle Station to Alexander Dock and passenger services were operated on it. To coincide with the opening of the Alexandra Dock branch Bootle Station was renamed as Canada Dock on the same day.
On the 1st January 1923 Canada Dock Station became part of the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS). By the summer of 1932 there were only five trains on weekdays between Canada Dock and Liverpool Lime Street. The first arrival was at 7.09am and it departed back to Liverpool Lime Street at 7.25am. The last arrival was at 5.39pm and it departed for Liverpool at 6.00pm. In contrast Alexandra Dock was had twelve services to Liverpool Lime Street.
| On the 28th of August 1940 Liverpool suffered its first bombing raid of the Second World War and in the following months the city suffered greatly. The Bootle branch was of national strategic importance and so was targeted by the Luftwaffe. In very heavy raids on the 4th of May 1941 the Leeds & Liverpool Canal was hit at Canada Dock Station. It flooded the goods and |
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passenger station complex and passenger services had to be withdrawn. Although the station was brought back into use for goods it did not re-open for passengers.The goods station remained in use until the 12th of September 1982. The passenger station remained extant until well into the 1990s. By the beginning of the 21st Century the entire site had been filled in and the street level building demolished. In 2011 different coloured brickwork in a wall on Derby Road marked the site of the station.
Source: An Illustrated History of Liverpool’s Railways – Paul Anderson – Irwell Press.
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