Thurstaston railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Thurstaston


caption = The site of Thurstaston station as it appears today, now part of a country park footpath [ Article "On the track of a country park" by Rex Christiansen in "The Countryman" Gill,C(Ed), Autumn 1977] .
gridref = SJ238835
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 = Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
platforms = 2
years = 19 April 1886
events = Opened
years1 = 1 February 1954 [Freight closure 7 May 1962]
events1 = Closed

Thurstaston railway station was a station on the single track Birkenhead Railway Hooton to West Kirby branch which opened in 1886 that served the eponymous village to the north east of the station buildings ["The Hooton to West Kirby Branch", Merseyside Railway History Group(Scheele,R(Ed): Birkenhead, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral,1982 ISBN 0904582043] . During the Second World War heavy anti-aircraft emplacements were built adjacent to the station and the line used to transport munitions [ [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/t/thurstaston/index.shtml Enthusiasts web-site] ] . After the war passenger numbers dropped and in 1956 the station was closed to passengers, although the track continued to be used for driver training for another eight years. 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] ] . At present, the two platforms survive (the Hooton-bound platform being largely obscured by undergrowth). The station buildings however are gone.

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