Station Name: WALTON ON THE HILL

[Source: Paul Wright]
Date opened: 01/12/1879
Location: At the junction of Rice Lane and Queens Drive
Company on opening: Cheshire Lines Committee
Date closed to passengers: 1.1.1918
Date closed completely: 9.9.1968
Company on closing: Cheshire Lines Committee
Present state: Station demolished but site still exists in part as it is in a deep cutting leading into a tunnel. There is no access as site is landlocked between housing development..
County: Lancashire
OS Grid Ref: SJ360950
Date of visit: 6.2.2005

Notes: Walton on the Hill 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 at Huskisson 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 through to Husskison.

On 1.5.1885 the station became a terminus for passenger services once again when Huskisson closed. Walton on the Hill was located on the western point of the Walton Triangle at the mouth of a tunnel at what was a busy railway location right up to the late 1960s. Adjacent to the station was the Walton on the Hill engine sheds.

The passenger station closed on 1.1.1918 a very early casualty to road competition. However it remained virtually intact until the early 1980s when the area was developed for housing. The line closed in August 1975 and was lifted in the spring of 1980.

The CLC opened a 4-road depot at Walton-on-the-Hill on 13th May1881; it was enlarged to six roads in 1885. BR re-roofed the shed and reduced it to 4 roads again c.1952 and the shed closed 15th December 1963, but it remained standing, increasingly derelict into the 1970s.

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


Walton on the Hill Station in about 1930 looking to the north east away from the tunnel mouth



Walton on the Hill Station and shed north east away from above the tunnel mouth in July 1961
Photo by Les Rogers from JD Rogers Flickr Photostream


Walton on the Hill Station looking south west in c.1964
Photo by Dave Nicholas


Walton on the Hill Station in 1981
Photo from http://lenpentin.20fr.com/ web site

The site of Walton on the Hill Station in August 1995. The station platforms stretched right up to the tunnel mouth. Two ramps ran up to the top of the tunnel and a footpath connected the platforms.
P
hoto by Paul Wright


Site of Walton on the Hill Station in February 2005 - the tunnel portal is beyond
the fence in the background
P
hoto by Paul Wright

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[Source: Paul Wright]



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