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Notes: Garston Dock Station started life as the western terminus
of the PST Helens and Runcorn Gap Railways line from Widnes to
Garston which opened on 1.7.1852 and finished life as the southern
terminus of the LMS Liverpool Lime Street to Garston Dock line.
When the line opened passengers were carried forward to Liverpool
by horse drawn omnibuses a state of affairs that could never compete
with the LNWR Liverpool to Manchester Line. To address this on
the 1.6.1864 an extension was opened by the Garston and Liverpool
Railway which ran to a terminus closer to the city at Brunswick.
On 5th July this extension became part of the CLC. On the 15.2.1864
the LNWR made a connection to the Garston Dock line from its Speke
Junction to Edge Hill Line. Shortly after on 29.7.1864 it absorbed
the St. Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway Company.
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The CLC ran trains to Manchester and beyond along the line using
LNWR metals from Garston Dock eastwards. This never worked very
well as the LNWR was not sympathetic to these services. On 1.8.1873
the CLC opened a direct line to Manchester which started at Cressington
Junction just a short distance to the west of Garston Dock Station.
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station was no longer on a main line. However the LNWR had
opened a curve from Garston to Allerton on 1.1.1873. This now
meant that a local service could operate from Garston Dock to
Liverpool Lime Street. Trains now departed towards the east, turning
north to reach the city whereas previously they had departed towards
the west to reach Brunswick.
This local service calling all stations to Liverpool Lime Street
lasted until 1..6.1947 except for a brief period when the station
was closed as a war time economy measure between 5.4.1917 and
5.5.1919.
For many years after closure the line was used as an important
freight artery between Cressington Junction and points to the
east but it closed in the 1970's and today the site is occupied
by a road.
See also Church
Road Garston
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