Index
- Hunts Cross to Aintree Home
- Hunts Cross
- Gateacre
- Childwall
- Knotty Ash
- West Derby
- Clubmoor
- Warbreck
- Aintree Central
- Walton on the Hill
- Huskisson
West Derby
(1879 - 1960)
West Derby station was located on the south side of Mill Lane. At the time of the station's opening, West Derby was a small rural village which had been mentioned in the Doomsday Book and was more important than Liverpool but today it is a suburb of Liverpool
West Derby station opened on December 1 1879 and was located in a cutting and the main station building straddled the line at street level and was a two-storey house consisted of brick with sandstone dressings. The bridge that supported the station building was of 2 arches and constructed from sandstone. Each arch was capable of taking 2 tracks; only the eastern arch was actually brought into use. Ramps led down to the platforms on either side of the line. The up (Hunts Cross-bound) platform was provided with a small waiting room of brick with a slate roof. On the down (Aintree-bound) platform there was a timber waiting shelter
West Derby had a goods yard which had 2 sidings and a goods shed and was also in a cutting reached by a sloping roadway
The December 1895 timetable showed West Derby as having an intensive service of 19 up and 22 down trains on weekdays and on Sundays there were six trains in each direction
By 1902 the new Liverpool Corporation Tramways had opened an electric line to West Derby which ran in front of the station and the trams had an adverse impact on revenue at West Derby station
The 1932 timetable showed West Derby had 10 up and down trains and by summer 1957 its service had been reduced to only 3 up and down trains on Monday to Saturday
The last regular train to serve West Derby ran on November 5 1960 and the station closed to passengers on December 7 1960
West Derby station opened on December 1 1879 and was located in a cutting and the main station building straddled the line at street level and was a two-storey house consisted of brick with sandstone dressings. The bridge that supported the station building was of 2 arches and constructed from sandstone. Each arch was capable of taking 2 tracks; only the eastern arch was actually brought into use. Ramps led down to the platforms on either side of the line. The up (Hunts Cross-bound) platform was provided with a small waiting room of brick with a slate roof. On the down (Aintree-bound) platform there was a timber waiting shelter
West Derby had a goods yard which had 2 sidings and a goods shed and was also in a cutting reached by a sloping roadway
The December 1895 timetable showed West Derby as having an intensive service of 19 up and 22 down trains on weekdays and on Sundays there were six trains in each direction
By 1902 the new Liverpool Corporation Tramways had opened an electric line to West Derby which ran in front of the station and the trams had an adverse impact on revenue at West Derby station
The 1932 timetable showed West Derby had 10 up and down trains and by summer 1957 its service had been reduced to only 3 up and down trains on Monday to Saturday
The last regular train to serve West Derby ran on November 5 1960 and the station closed to passengers on December 7 1960
