Cuerdley Station was situated on the St. Helens Canal and Railway Companies (SHCRC) line that opened from Widnes on 1st of February 1853. Making an end on connection with the line at Widnes was the same companies Widnes and Garston line, which had opened on the 1st July 1852. This created a route from Garston to Warrington where another end on connection to the Warrington and Stockport Railway at Warrington Arpley allowed trains to travel all the way to Manchester thereby creating an alternative to the London & North Western Railway’s (LNWR) historic Liverpool to Manchester route.

The station was opened in November 1855 following a period of intense lobbying by the inhabitants of the small Hamlet of Cuerdley which lay about half a mile to the north of the line. The SHCRC had serious misgivings about opening a station at Cuerdley as they believed that there was insufficient demand.

It is likely that the station consisted of little more than two basic platforms and perhaps a small wooden built booking office. It would have been served by local stopping trains running between Garston and the Manchester area.

Cuerdley Station proved to be a financial disaster, as only a handful of passengers used it. The SHCRC had been proven to be right to have had misgivings about opening it in the first place. They closed it completely on 5th January 1858.

As the station never appeared on any maps and as it has left no trace it is very difficult to be sure of its exact location. In all likelihood it was located at the point where in the mid 1960s, over 100 years after the stations closure, a junction was created, called Fiddlers Ferry Power Station Junction. The junction provided a connection into the Fiddlers Ferry Power station, which was built at that time. Today the site of Cuerdley Station is a busy railway location with a steady procession of coal trains going in and out of the power station.

To see the other stations on the Ditton Junction to Skelton Junction Line click on the station name: Ditton, Widnes South, Fidlers Ferry & Penketh, Sankey Bridges, Warrington Bank Quay Low Level, Warrington Arpley, Latchford, Thelwall, Lymm, Heatley & Warburton,
Dunham Massey & Broadheath.