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Aintree Racecourse formerly Aintree Cinder Lane
(1890 -1961)
Aintree Racecourse station was located on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railways (LYR) North Mersey Branch which had opened as a goods line on August 27 1866 to provide a link into
the Liverpool north docks
The LYR had opened an excursion station on the east side of the road called Warbreck Moor over which the line passed on a bridge and that the station was called Aintree Cinder Lane
The platform was actually a railway line and none of the usual passenger facilities were provided as it was intended that passengers would quickly leave trains and later they would return at designated times and their trains would be waiting. Basic wooden structures for the use of railway staff were located by the exit at platform level and it is possible that there was a basic shelter. At street level on the east side of the road there was also a ticket collectors hut
The station never had a public service because it served only race day specials. On May 18 1910, the LYR renamed the station as Aintree Racecourse. Along with the LYR’s public station at Aintree Sefton Arms, and with the Cheshire Lines Committee's Aintree Station, between them the three stations handled tens of thousands of racegoers
By the early 1960s, many people were using road transport to visit the Grand National and although dozens of excursion trains continued to run they could be accommodated at Aintree Sefton Arms or at the former CLC station which had become known as Aintree Central after 1950. The last excursions ran to Aintree Racecourse on March 25 1961 and the station officially closed from March 31 1962
In 1987, the North Mersey Branch Line, which ran through Aintree Racecourse station, was lifted. During the 1990s the route of the line through the station was converted into a cycleway and footpath
The LYR had opened an excursion station on the east side of the road called Warbreck Moor over which the line passed on a bridge and that the station was called Aintree Cinder Lane
The platform was actually a railway line and none of the usual passenger facilities were provided as it was intended that passengers would quickly leave trains and later they would return at designated times and their trains would be waiting. Basic wooden structures for the use of railway staff were located by the exit at platform level and it is possible that there was a basic shelter. At street level on the east side of the road there was also a ticket collectors hut
The station never had a public service because it served only race day specials. On May 18 1910, the LYR renamed the station as Aintree Racecourse. Along with the LYR’s public station at Aintree Sefton Arms, and with the Cheshire Lines Committee's Aintree Station, between them the three stations handled tens of thousands of racegoers
By the early 1960s, many people were using road transport to visit the Grand National and although dozens of excursion trains continued to run they could be accommodated at Aintree Sefton Arms or at the former CLC station which had become known as Aintree Central after 1950. The last excursions ran to Aintree Racecourse on March 25 1961 and the station officially closed from March 31 1962
In 1987, the North Mersey Branch Line, which ran through Aintree Racecourse station, was lifted. During the 1990s the route of the line through the station was converted into a cycleway and footpath
