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Tanhouse Lane
(1879 - 2000)
Tanhouse Lane Station was located on the east side of Tanhouse Lane on the Widnes Loop Line which connected the town with the Cheshire Lines Liverpool to Manchester main line
Primarily a goods line it had one other station at Widnes Central which opened on August 1 1879
Due to the construction of the line further industry expansion took place along its route to the east of Widnes and a small community grew up to serve it. Tanhouse Lane station opened to serve this community on September 1 1890. The station was situated at the point where Tanhouse Lane crossed the railway by means of a level crossing
The station had two platforms which were linked by a footbridge at the west end of the station which served pedestrians who could use it to cross the railway when the crossing gates were closed. The station was provided with single-storey timber and brick-built buildings on both platforms. Tall brick-built walls ran along the length of the platforms on both sides
From the beginning the station was served by mostly stopping trains running between Liverpool Central and Manchester Central with some shorter workings going only as far as Warrington Central. It appears that some services from the Liverpool direction actually terminated at Tanhouse Lane
By the 1960s there were still 9 trains each way (Liverpool Central - Manchester Central) but the station could not be saved because of the growth in road transport and it closed on October 5 1964
The loop line closed a few years later but that was not the end of the story for Tanhouse Lane as a rail-served destination. A connection was put in from a point about half a mile to the west of Tanhouse Lane to the Widnes to St Helens line and this allowed goods services to continue running into a nearby cement factory. When in turn the Widnes to St Helens line closed in 1982 a new connection was put in linking the cement factory to the Ditton Junction to Manchester via Warrington and Lymm line. This connection remained in use for cement traffic until 2000
Primarily a goods line it had one other station at Widnes Central which opened on August 1 1879
Due to the construction of the line further industry expansion took place along its route to the east of Widnes and a small community grew up to serve it. Tanhouse Lane station opened to serve this community on September 1 1890. The station was situated at the point where Tanhouse Lane crossed the railway by means of a level crossing
The station had two platforms which were linked by a footbridge at the west end of the station which served pedestrians who could use it to cross the railway when the crossing gates were closed. The station was provided with single-storey timber and brick-built buildings on both platforms. Tall brick-built walls ran along the length of the platforms on both sides
From the beginning the station was served by mostly stopping trains running between Liverpool Central and Manchester Central with some shorter workings going only as far as Warrington Central. It appears that some services from the Liverpool direction actually terminated at Tanhouse Lane
By the 1960s there were still 9 trains each way (Liverpool Central - Manchester Central) but the station could not be saved because of the growth in road transport and it closed on October 5 1964
The loop line closed a few years later but that was not the end of the story for Tanhouse Lane as a rail-served destination. A connection was put in from a point about half a mile to the west of Tanhouse Lane to the Widnes to St Helens line and this allowed goods services to continue running into a nearby cement factory. When in turn the Widnes to St Helens line closed in 1982 a new connection was put in linking the cement factory to the Ditton Junction to Manchester via Warrington and Lymm line. This connection remained in use for cement traffic until 2000
