Station Name: HUSKISSON

[Source: Paul Wright]


Date opened: 13.7.1880
Location: On the north side of Boundary Road
Company on opening: Cheshire Lines Committee
Date closed to passengers: 1.5.1886
Date closed completely: August 1975
Company on closing: Cheshire Lines Committee
Present state: Demolished
County: Lancashire
OS Grid Ref: SJ343926
Date of visit: 20.8.2005
Notes: Huskisson Station was situated on the Cheshire Lines Committee's North Liverpool Extension Line which connected its main Liverpool to Manchester line to the north Liverpool docks by skirting through agricultural land to the east of Liverpool. When the line opened Walton-on-the-Hill was the terminus but seven months later on 13.7.1880 services started running
Initially it was only used on 13/14 July for race traffic with a public service starting on 2.8.1880.

The passenger station closed on 13.7.1885 as it was not very well used. It was converted for goods use as it lay within the huge Huskisson Goods Station. The station handled some passenger traffic after closure in 1885 under the title Huskisson Cattle. This was a non-timetabled service for herdsmen accompanying cattle. Huskisson remained open for rail borne goods services until August 1975 and for road services for some years after that.

Ticket from Michael Stewart

To see the other stations on the CLC North Liverpool Extension Line click on the station name: Aintree Central, Warbreck, Walton on the Hill, Clubmoor, West Derby, Knotty Ash, Childwall & Gateacre


Huskisson Station in looking south 1954. The station was remarkably in tact considering it had been closed for nearly 70 years.
Copyright photo from Stations UK



1969 DMU Railtour at Huskisson
Photo by John Tolson
1969 DMU Railtour at Huskisson
Photo by Norman Daley


The site of Huskisson Station in August 2005
P
hoto by Paul Wright

 

 

 

[Source: Paul Wright]


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