Index
- Edge Hill to Bootle Home
- Edge Hill
- Edge Lane
- Stanley
- Tuebrook
- Breck Road
- Walton and Anfield
- Spellow
- Canada Dock
- Bootle Balliol Road
- Alexandra Dock
- Atlantic Dock Junction
Alexandra Dock formerly Atlantic Dock
(1881 - 1948)
Alexandra Dock station was the northern terminus of the branch line opened on September 5 1881 to serve a large goods station at Alexandra Dock in the north Liverpool docks
It was to be opened as 'Atlantic Dock' but a few days before it was due to have its official opening the Dock Board decided to rename it Alexandra Dock after HRH Princess Alexandra who was to perform the opening ceremony. The railway company followed their lead renaming the passenger and goods station on September 10 1881
The station was provided with a single-storey brick building with a long single platform which was within a train shed for almost its entire length
To the south of the passenger station there was a goods yard
From the start the passenger service ran between Alexandra Dock and Liverpool Lime Street calling at all intermediate stations. The service was well used as it provided a valuable link between the docks and the rapidly developing suburban areas of Liverpool. This service was interspersed between Canada Dock - Liverpool Lime Street trains; the services between the city centre and the two dockland termini had a similar frequency
The passenger station survived intact until the late 1960s after the branch line from Edge Hill closed in 1948 and the goods station (which was rebuilt in a simpler form after the war bomb damage) continued to handle traffic until 1988
The line from Alexandra Dock had fallen out of use by the mid 1970s but was brought back into use in 1980 to serve the Seaforth container terminal. In the second half of the 1980s, coal traffic also began to run on the line and this was followed by other traffic flows. The line was re-doubled in the late 1990s and in 2013 was a very busy stretch of freight railway
Nothing remains of the original passenger station
It was to be opened as 'Atlantic Dock' but a few days before it was due to have its official opening the Dock Board decided to rename it Alexandra Dock after HRH Princess Alexandra who was to perform the opening ceremony. The railway company followed their lead renaming the passenger and goods station on September 10 1881
The station was provided with a single-storey brick building with a long single platform which was within a train shed for almost its entire length
To the south of the passenger station there was a goods yard
From the start the passenger service ran between Alexandra Dock and Liverpool Lime Street calling at all intermediate stations. The service was well used as it provided a valuable link between the docks and the rapidly developing suburban areas of Liverpool. This service was interspersed between Canada Dock - Liverpool Lime Street trains; the services between the city centre and the two dockland termini had a similar frequency
The passenger station survived intact until the late 1960s after the branch line from Edge Hill closed in 1948 and the goods station (which was rebuilt in a simpler form after the war bomb damage) continued to handle traffic until 1988
The line from Alexandra Dock had fallen out of use by the mid 1970s but was brought back into use in 1980 to serve the Seaforth container terminal. In the second half of the 1980s, coal traffic also began to run on the line and this was followed by other traffic flows. The line was re-doubled in the late 1990s and in 2013 was a very busy stretch of freight railway
Nothing remains of the original passenger station
