Notes: Tranmere Station opened as Lime Kiln Lane in June 1846. The station was situated on the ‘Chester and Birkenhead Railway’ company's Birkenhead to Chester line which had opened on 23 September 1840.

At the time when Lime Kiln Lane station opened the Birkenhead to Chester railway was a single track line so it is likely that it was provided with only one platform. The station was on an embankment on the north side of the bridge that carried the railway over Lime Kiln Lane which was later renamed as St Paul’s Road. Trains serving the station would have run between Birkenhead Monks Ferry, Chester and points to the south of Chester.

On 22 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 at this time Lime Kiln Lane would have gained an extra platform.

By March 1850 Lime Kiln Lane had eight up and down services Monday-to-Saturday as shown in the table below. There were three up and four down trains on Sundays.

In 1853 the station was renamed as Tranmere. However it was not to last for very long closing in October 1857 (last appeared in timetable).

The site of Tranmere Station has been altered many times since 1857. On the 15 June 1891 the Mersey Railway opened an extension from Green Lane to Rock Ferry. The Mersey Railway lines ran parallel to the Birkenhead to Chester railway at the Tranmere Station site. The Birkenhead to Chester line itself was quadrupled between Birkenhead Town and Capenhurst between 1900 and 1905. There were then six tracks running through the site of Tranmere, all raised above street level on embankments and bridges. Any remains of Tranmere Station would have been swept away by this time.

To see other closed stations on the Birkenhead Woodside to Chester line click on the station name: Birkenhead Woodside, Birkenhead Monks Ferry, Birkenhead Town, Rock Lane, Ledsham, Mollington & Upton-by-Chester