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
Edge Lane
(1866 - 1948)
Edge Lane was opened after the passenger service had been extended to Canada Dock, first appearing in the timetable in November 1870. It was located in a cutting on the south side of its namesake which passed over the line on a bridge. The station had two platforms both of which were linked to Edge Lane by sloping footpaths
The main facilities were on the up platform (Liverpool direction). They were housed in a single-storey brick building of restrained elegance. The roof was of a half-hipped style above which rose two tall and slim chimneystacks. The doorway from the platform into the booking hall was beneath a segmental arch. To its right were two triple round-headed window openings, with a similar triple window to its left. Bricks of alternating colour added decoration to the window heads. An unadorned toilet block was added to the south-east end of the building
On the down platform there was a smaller version of the main building, again under a half-hipped roof, and with a single tall chimneystack. This building, too, had a toilet block at its south-eastern end
There were no goods facilities at Edge Lane station; they were located at Stanley station which was a short distance to the north
The December 1895 timetable showed thirty up and thirty-one down trains on weekdays. All of the up services ran to Liverpool Lime Street and the down services were still split roughly equally between the two northern termini at Alexandra Dock and Canada Dock
On January 1 1948 Edge Lane became part of British Railways (London Midland Region). As a passenger station it did not survive long after Nationalisation, closing on May 31 1948. The station was demolished but the line remains open and is still busy with freight trains
The main facilities were on the up platform (Liverpool direction). They were housed in a single-storey brick building of restrained elegance. The roof was of a half-hipped style above which rose two tall and slim chimneystacks. The doorway from the platform into the booking hall was beneath a segmental arch. To its right were two triple round-headed window openings, with a similar triple window to its left. Bricks of alternating colour added decoration to the window heads. An unadorned toilet block was added to the south-east end of the building
On the down platform there was a smaller version of the main building, again under a half-hipped roof, and with a single tall chimneystack. This building, too, had a toilet block at its south-eastern end
There were no goods facilities at Edge Lane station; they were located at Stanley station which was a short distance to the north
The December 1895 timetable showed thirty up and thirty-one down trains on weekdays. All of the up services ran to Liverpool Lime Street and the down services were still split roughly equally between the two northern termini at Alexandra Dock and Canada Dock
On January 1 1948 Edge Lane became part of British Railways (London Midland Region). As a passenger station it did not survive long after Nationalisation, closing on May 31 1948. The station was demolished but the line remains open and is still busy with freight trains
