Notes: Mollington Station was one of the original stations of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway company's, Birkenhead to Chester line which opened on the 23rd September 1840.
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At the time of opening the Birkenhead to Chester railway was a single track line so Ledsham would have been provided with only one platform. The stations building was located on the west side of the line. It consisted of a brick built two storey building that provided facilities for passengers and accommodation for the station master. A sloping path linked the |
platform directly to the road overbridge which crossed the line to the north of the station. An approach road also led to the station entrance for vehicular traffic. Trains serving the station would have originally run between Birkenhead and Chester and points to the south of Chester.
| On the 22nd July 1847 the line became part of the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway and shortly afterwards the new company doubled the track between Birkenhead and Chester. It is likely that it was at this time that Mollington gained its second platform which became the Chester/southbound platform. In 1859 the owning company changed their |
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name to the Birkenhead Railway but by November 1860 the company was taken over by the GWR and LNWR who operated the line as joint concern.
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Although train services at Mollington were mostly local but longer distance services could be accommodated by the stations lengthy platforms which continued beyond the road overbridge. A steady stream of express passenger services, including the GWR’s Birkenhead Woodside to London Paddington service, passed through the station as did a wide variety of |
goods services running to the Birkenhead Docks.
At the grouping in 1923 the line became a GWR/LMS joint line and in 1948 it became part of British Railways London Midland Region.
| As Mollington Station was in a fairly remote location it suffered from a decline in passenger numbers during the second half of the 20th century. It closed to passengers on the 7th March 1960 but remained open for goods traffic until 4th January 1965 although it was downgraded to an unstaffed public siding on closure to passengers. After 1965 a private siding remained in |
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use or some time.
The line through Mollington Station was electrified as part of an extension of the Merseyrail Wirral Line from Hooton to Chester in 1993. There is a suggestion that the station should be reopened with car parking for 20 - 30 cars in the 2008 Mollington Parish Plan.
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To see other closed stations on the Birkenhead Woodside to Chester line click on the station name: Birkenhead Woodside, Birkenhead Monks Ferry, Birkenhead Town, Tranmere, Rock Lane, Ledsham, & Upton-by-Chester |
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