- Blacon railway station
Blacon railway station was located in
Blacon ,Cheshire ,England and was part of the line between Chester Northgate and Hawarden Bridge. This line was later extended to reachWrexham andBirkenhead .Blacon Station opened on
31 March 1890 by theManchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (later theGreat Central Railway ). The station included thestation master 's house and a brick goods warehouse. A "Cheap Day" return to Chester Northgate Station would cost 6d compared to a bus fare of 9d return.Despite being a busy station, it closed to passengers on
9 September 1968 byBritish Railways ,citeweb|url=http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/b/blacon/index.shtml|title=Station Name: Blacon|work=Disused Stations|accessdate=6 October|accessyear=2008] as part of theBeeching Axe for the economic modernisation of the British railway network in the mid-1960s. [Richard Beeching 's report "The Reshaping of British Railways" was published in 1965.] Even with the closure ofsteelmaking operations at Shotton in March 1980, [citeweb|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/flintshire/pages/steel.shtml |title=Shotton Steelworks and Garden City|accessdate=6 October|accessyear=2008] freight continued to use the line through the station until20 April 1984 . Goods services resumed use of the now single track line on31 August 1986 before ceasing altogether in the early 1990s. [citebook|title=Cheshire Railways Remembered |last=Oppitz|first=Leslie|date=1997|pages=p111|publisher=Countryside Books|isbn=1-85306-458-0]The station buildings have been demolished, although the nearby road bridge over the former track remains. The trackbed has been replaced by a
tarmac road surface, which now provides a cycle path, jogging track and a countryside walkway. [citeweb|url=http://www.chesterwalls.info/railstroll/rail18.html|title=A Virtual Stroll Along the Mickle Trafford-Shotton Railway]References
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