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Garston Church Road
(1881 - 1939)
Church Road station was on the Garston and Warrington railway which had opened from Garston to Widnes on July 1 1852 and from Widnes to Warrington on February 1 1853
The station was located on an embankment and the line was double-track with two brick platforms. The main facilities were provided on the up direction platform and consisted of a single-storey timber building housing the booking office, waiting rooms and toilets for both sexes. To the east, directly behind the main building, was the two-storey stationmaster's house
On the down platform (Garston Dock direction) there were only basic facilities, but it is unlikely that any passengers would have travelled between Church Road and Garston Dock as the distance was so short. The down platform would have been used almost entirely by passengers alighting from trains
Church Road closed as a wartime economy measure on April 5 1917 and did not reopen until May 5 1919. The July timetable for 1922 showed that the service had decreased to 8 trains in each direction on weekdays with only 6 departures on Saturdays
The LMS closed Church Road station on July 3 1939 because Garston was well served by a station on the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) main line between Liverpool and Manchester which offered much faster journey times to central Liverpool
In the 1960s, a Freightliner terminal was built on the south side of the line between Garston Church Road and Garston Dock stations and the terminal is still in operation today
The station was located on an embankment and the line was double-track with two brick platforms. The main facilities were provided on the up direction platform and consisted of a single-storey timber building housing the booking office, waiting rooms and toilets for both sexes. To the east, directly behind the main building, was the two-storey stationmaster's house
On the down platform (Garston Dock direction) there were only basic facilities, but it is unlikely that any passengers would have travelled between Church Road and Garston Dock as the distance was so short. The down platform would have been used almost entirely by passengers alighting from trains
Church Road closed as a wartime economy measure on April 5 1917 and did not reopen until May 5 1919. The July timetable for 1922 showed that the service had decreased to 8 trains in each direction on weekdays with only 6 departures on Saturdays
The LMS closed Church Road station on July 3 1939 because Garston was well served by a station on the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) main line between Liverpool and Manchester which offered much faster journey times to central Liverpool
In the 1960s, a Freightliner terminal was built on the south side of the line between Garston Church Road and Garston Dock stations and the terminal is still in operation today
