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Sefton Park
(1892 - 1960)
Suburbs had grown alongside the Liverpool to London line since it had opened and to serve the areas of housing in the Smithdown Road area, Sefton Park station was opened on June 1 1892
It was located on an embankment and the line passed over Smithdown Road on a bridge and adjacent to it a street level booking office was provided. Access to the station was via the single storey booking office which had a set of steps behind it that led up to the down slow line (Liverpool direction) platform. As the line was quadruple Sefton Park had four platforms two of them being part of an island. A subway ran from the booking office to the east side of the line giving access to the island platform and the up fast line (London direction) platform and waiting facilities and public toilets were provided on the platforms
When Sefton Park station opened the most frequent service was that which ran between Liverpool Lime Street and Garston Dock. It also had trains to Chester, Manchester, Stockport and Warrington
In December 1895 there were twenty-three up and twenty-two down services Monday to Friday and on Saturdays there was one less down train and there were no trains on Sundays
When Sefton Park opened it had little in the way of competition but within 8 years an electric tramway was opened along Smithdown Road and the tramway provided a convenient means of transport to the centre of Liverpool and affected ticket sales at Sefton Park station
At nationalisation on January 1 1948 Sefton Park station became part of British Railways and the summer timetable for 1948 showed only sixteen up and nine down services Monday to Friday. There were two extra down services on Saturdays and no services on Sundays
The British Railways modernisation plan of 1955 identified the line between Liverpool Lime Street and London Euston as a candidate for electrification and work began in the late 1950s. The electrification plans included the modernisation of a number of stations along the line. Sefton Park was not one of them and it was closed completely on May 2 1960
At track level it was demolished within a few months to facilitate the electrification of the line but the street level building survived the closure of the station and was extant in 2013
It was located on an embankment and the line passed over Smithdown Road on a bridge and adjacent to it a street level booking office was provided. Access to the station was via the single storey booking office which had a set of steps behind it that led up to the down slow line (Liverpool direction) platform. As the line was quadruple Sefton Park had four platforms two of them being part of an island. A subway ran from the booking office to the east side of the line giving access to the island platform and the up fast line (London direction) platform and waiting facilities and public toilets were provided on the platforms
When Sefton Park station opened the most frequent service was that which ran between Liverpool Lime Street and Garston Dock. It also had trains to Chester, Manchester, Stockport and Warrington
In December 1895 there were twenty-three up and twenty-two down services Monday to Friday and on Saturdays there was one less down train and there were no trains on Sundays
When Sefton Park opened it had little in the way of competition but within 8 years an electric tramway was opened along Smithdown Road and the tramway provided a convenient means of transport to the centre of Liverpool and affected ticket sales at Sefton Park station
At nationalisation on January 1 1948 Sefton Park station became part of British Railways and the summer timetable for 1948 showed only sixteen up and nine down services Monday to Friday. There were two extra down services on Saturdays and no services on Sundays
The British Railways modernisation plan of 1955 identified the line between Liverpool Lime Street and London Euston as a candidate for electrification and work began in the late 1950s. The electrification plans included the modernisation of a number of stations along the line. Sefton Park was not one of them and it was closed completely on May 2 1960
At track level it was demolished within a few months to facilitate the electrification of the line but the street level building survived the closure of the station and was extant in 2013
