Index
- Liverpool to Manchester (LMR)
- Liverpool Lime Street
- Wapping
- Liverpool Crown Street
- Edge Hill
- Wavertree Tech Park
- Broadgreen
- Roby
- Huyton
- Huyton Quarry
- Whiston
- Rainhill
- Lea Green
- St Helens Junction
- Collins Green
- Earlestown
- Newton-le_Willows
- Parkside 1st
- Parkside 2nd
- Kenyon Junction
- Glazebury
- Astley
- Flow Moss
- Lamb's Cottage
- Barton Moss 1st
- Barton Moss 2nd
- Patricroft
- Eccles
- Weaste
- Seedley
- Cross Lane
- Ordsall Lane
- Manchester Liverpool Road
- Manchester Exchange
- Manchester Victoria
Liverpool Crown Street
(1830 - 1836)
Liverpool Crown Street station was the western passenger terminus of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway (L&M) first used on September 15 1830 which was the formal opening day of the L&M
Invited guests, including the Duke of Wellington who was Prime Minister, travelled from the station in a cavalcade of trains to Manchester
The station was located a short distance to the west of the western portal of the Crown Street tunnel. The main facilities were housed in a plain but dignified stone-built two-storey building with a restrained classical appearance. Its Venetian windows faced the low departure platform covered by a long, flat canopy supported by columns close to the platform edge
Opposite, with three lines in-between, was the arrival platform. A wood and glass overall roof of shallow pitch supported by the canopy columns to the north and a screen wall to the south covered the tracks
At first there were six daily passenger departures and arrivals and the L&M had anticipated that it would carry about 2,000 passengers per day but on many occasions it was carrying 2,500
With the opening of the new Liverpool Lime Street station Crown Street closed to passengers in 1836. In its final months of operation Crown Street had twelve departures and arrivals each day
The Crown Street site became a goods facility In 1849 a double-track tunnel was built from the Edge Hill cutting to Crown Street enabling locomotives to run to Crown Street for the first time As a goods facility Crown Street survived for a surprisingly long time. By the late 1960s it was in use as a coal yard that was still rail served. It closed completely on May 1 1972
In the 1980s the site was landscaped as a public park and the western portal of the Crown Street tunnel was buried. The western portal of the 1849 tunnel could still be seen in 2014 as that tunnel had been retained as a head-shunt and run-around facility
Invited guests, including the Duke of Wellington who was Prime Minister, travelled from the station in a cavalcade of trains to Manchester
The station was located a short distance to the west of the western portal of the Crown Street tunnel. The main facilities were housed in a plain but dignified stone-built two-storey building with a restrained classical appearance. Its Venetian windows faced the low departure platform covered by a long, flat canopy supported by columns close to the platform edge
Opposite, with three lines in-between, was the arrival platform. A wood and glass overall roof of shallow pitch supported by the canopy columns to the north and a screen wall to the south covered the tracks
At first there were six daily passenger departures and arrivals and the L&M had anticipated that it would carry about 2,000 passengers per day but on many occasions it was carrying 2,500
With the opening of the new Liverpool Lime Street station Crown Street closed to passengers in 1836. In its final months of operation Crown Street had twelve departures and arrivals each day
The Crown Street site became a goods facility In 1849 a double-track tunnel was built from the Edge Hill cutting to Crown Street enabling locomotives to run to Crown Street for the first time As a goods facility Crown Street survived for a surprisingly long time. By the late 1960s it was in use as a coal yard that was still rail served. It closed completely on May 1 1972
In the 1980s the site was landscaped as a public park and the western portal of the Crown Street tunnel was buried. The western portal of the 1849 tunnel could still be seen in 2014 as that tunnel had been retained as a head-shunt and run-around facility
