Station Name: ALEXANDRA DOCK

 

[Source: Paul Wright]


Date opened: 5.9.1881
Location: On the west side of Regent Road
Company on opening: London North Western Railway
Date closed to passengers: 31.5.1948
Date closed completely: 2.1.1967
Company on closing: British Railways (London Midland Region)
Present state: Demolished. The site of the station was at one time accessible as it was on a public road. Several years ago the Port of Liverpool sought a road closure and now the site is within the dock estate. It can be seen from Derby Road quite easily.
County: Lancashire
OS Grid Ref: SJ335948
Date of visit: 19.6.2005

Notes: Alexandra Dock Station was the terminus station of the relatively short branch that connected to LNWR Canada Dock Branch (opened in 1866) at Atlantic Dock Junction, which was situated in a deep cutting at the rear of the LYR Bank Hall MPD. The branch opened on 5th September 1881 and it had stations at Balliol Road and Alexandra Dock.

When it opened on 5.8.1881 the station was named 'Atlantic Dock' but it was renamed five days later on 10.9.1881 to Alexandra Dock the name which it kept until closure. The station was a single platform terminus but it had an overall roof. Its booking office was located on Liverpool's busy 'Dock Road' (although its correct name was always Regent Road at this point) and confusingly there was another station called Alexandra Dock a short walk away on the Liverpool Overhead Railway.

Throughout its life Alexandra Dock Station was served by local services that started at Liverpool Lime Street and then called at all stations along the Canada Dock Branch before turning north at Atlantic Dock Junction and heading for the terminus at Alexandra Dock. This service finished on 31.5.1948

The line was always more busy for freight and remains so to this day as it connects with the north Liverpool docks.

See also Bootle Balliol Road


Alexandra Dock Station in c.1959/1960
P
hoto by Alan Poole



Railtour at Alexandra Dock Station - 6.6.1959
P
hoto by Bevan Price

Railtour at Alexandra Dock Station - 6.6.1959
P
hoto by Bevan Price

A view of the site of Alexandra Dock Station on 19.6.2005 from Derby Road Bridge looking west. The station was situated roughly where the present tracks are. There had been a large goods depot to the left of the picture but now trains run through the site and head much deeper into the dock estate.
P
hoto by Paul Wright

 

 

 

[Source: Paul Wright]


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