Gateacre railway station explained

Gateacre
Status:Disused
Borough:Gateacre, Liverpool
Country:England
Coordinates:53.3846°N -2.8599°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Platforms:2
Line:North Liverpool Extension Line
Original:Cheshire Lines Committee
Pregroup:Cheshire Lines Committee
Postgroup:Cheshire Lines Committee
Years:1 December 1879
Events:Station opened to passengers as "Gateacre (for Woolton)"
Years1:March 1882
Events1:Opened for goods
Years2:4 December 1965
Events2:Closed for goods
Years3:15 April 1972
Events3:Closed completely

Gateacre (for Woolton) railway station was located on the North Liverpool Extension Line on the north side of Belle Vale Road, Gateacre, Liverpool, England. Next door was the Black Bull public house which still stands.

Official maps, tickets, timetables, a large exterior station sign and platform nameboards variously refer to the station as "Gateacre", "Gateacre, for Woolton", "Gateacre for Woolton" and "Gateacre & Woolton". "Gateacre" is pronounced "Gattiker."

The station had outlived those on the same line north of Aintree by twenty years and all the remainder by twelve years when it closed to passengers on 15 April 1972. It had latterly been the suburban terminus of the sole residual service from Liverpool Central (High Level). It was planned that the station would reopen as the southern terminus of Merseyrail's Northern Line. This never occurred, with becoming the terminus. The tracks through the station site were used for freight trains to Liverpool Docks until 1975. They were lifted in early 1979.

By 2015 the trackbed though the station site formed part of the Trans Pennine Trail.

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