Southport London Street railway station

Southport London Street
London Street excursion platforms at Southport Chapel Street, as viewed from the Victoria footbridge in 1965.
Location	Southport, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton England
Coordinates	53°38′43″N 3°00′00″W / 53.6454°N 2.9999°W / 53.6454; -2.9999Coordinates: 53°38′43″N 3°00′00″W / 53.6454°N 2.9999°W / 53.6454; -2.9999
Grid reference	SD339170
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Manchester and Southport Railway
Pre-grouping	Manchester and Southport Railway
Key dates
9 April 1855	Opened
1 April 1857	Closed

Southport London Street was a railway station in Southport, Merseyside.

History[]

It opened on 9 April 1855 as the East Lancashire Railway's terminus for the Manchester and Southport Railway, a line that it operated with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The station closed on 1 April 1857, with all services transferred to the adjacent Southport Chapel Street, though the station buildings remained in use as a 'repairing shed' (according to the 1894 Ordnance Survey). An expansion of Chapel Street in 1914 swallowed the site completely, though its name was preserved with platforms 12 and 13 dubbed the "London Street Excursion Platforms". When Chapel Street was rebuilt in the early 1970s, the excursion platforms were filled in to make space for a car park.

References[]

Sources[]

• Gahan, John W. (1985). Seaport to Seaside. Countyvise Limited. pp. 91–93. ISBN 0-907768-07-5., and Avon Anglia Publications, ISBN 0-905466-73-X.
• Gell, Rob (1986). An Illustrated Survey of Railway Stations Between Southport & Liverpool 1848-1986. Heyday Publishing Company. ISBN 0-947562-04-4.

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