Garston and Liverpool Railway
- Garston and Liverpool Railway
Garston and Liverpool Railway the line ran from the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway line at Garston Docks to Brunswick railway station. It opened on 1 June 1864. It was absorbed by the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) on 5 July 1865, whose Liverpool to Manchester line joined it at Cressington Junction.
At St Michaels a short spur in a tunnel leeds to a goods station between Harrington Dock and Herculaneum Dock [ [http://www.btinternet.com/~joyce.whitchurch/maps/mersey1.jpgMap of Mersey railways] ]
References
External links
* [http://www.btinternet.com/~m.royden/mrlhp/local/halewood/railway/railwaytext.htm The Impact of the Coming of the Railway on 19th Century Halewood]
* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/o/otterspool/index.shtml History of Otterspool station ]
* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/g/garston_dock/index.shtml History of Garston dock station]
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