Parkgate railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Parkgate


caption = Taken from the Wirral Way just north of the station where Brooklands Road and Wood Lane cross [ Article On the track of a country park by Christiansen,R in The Countryman Autumn 1977(Gill,C-Ed)] .
gridref = SJ283781
manager = (1866-1923)West Kirby-Hooton branch of the
Birkenhead Railway [Owned jointly by the London and North Western Railway and the Great Western Railway]
owner =(1923 to 1948)LMS
(1948 to 1956)London Midland Region (British Railways) [Although freight services continued until the Sixties]
locale = The Wirral
borough = Ellesmere Port and Neston, Cheshire
platforms = 2
years = 1 October 1866
events = First station opened
years1 = 19 April 1886
events1 = Second station opened
years2 = 17 September 1956 [Freight closure 7 May 1962]
events2 = Closed

Parkgate railway station was a station on the single track Birkenhead Railway Hooton to West Kirby branch which opened in 1866; that served the eponymous community on the west coast of the Wirral peninsula. A second station was built twenty years later with the old buildings being retained as a Goods Yard. Once motor transport reached the area passenger numbers dwindled [ [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/p/parkgate/index.shtml Enthusiasts web-site] ] and in 1956 the station was closed to passengers (although the track continued to be used for driver training for another eight years [ "The Hooton to West Kirby Branch", Merseyside Railway History Group(Scheele,R(Ed): Birkenhead, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral,1982 ISBN 0904582043] ). A decade later the track bed was lifted and a footpath laid to create Britain’s first Country Park [ [http://www.visitliverpool.com/site/attractions/wirral-country-park-p7711 Details of park] ] .

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