Station Name: CALDY

 

[Source: John Fogg]


Date opened: 1.5.1909
Location: On the north side of Croft Drive, east of its junction with Shore Road
Company on opening: Birkenhead Joint (Great Western Railway and London North Western Railway)
Date closed to passengers: 1.2.1954
Date closed completely: 7.5.1962
Company on closing: British Railways (London Midland Region)
Present state: The station has been demolished nothing remains.
County: Cheshire
OS Grid Ref: SJ222850
Date of visit: April 2005

Notes: (by Paul Wright) The GWR and LNWR opened a branch line from their main line at Hooton to Parkgate on 1.10.1866. Three stations were provided at Hadlow Road, Neston and Parkgate. On the 19.4.1886 the line was extended to West Kirby. Further stations opened at Heswall, Thurstaston, Caldy, Kirby Park and West Kirby.

The line was a single track branch with passing loops at various points including Hadlow Road. It served the small village of Willaston until its closure in 1956. The line survived until 1964 for goods services and latterly it was used to train drivers on newly introduced DMUs.

In the early 1970s the route of the Hooton - West Kirby Branch was chosen to create Britain's first country park the Wirral Country Park. Hadlow Road Station was restored as a typical 1950s village station and it remains as such today.

To see the other stations on the Hooton - West Kirby line click on the station name: West Kirby, Kirby Park, Thurstaston, Heswall, Parkgate, Neston South & Hadlow Road

 

Caldy Station (unknown date)
What cannot be seen from the photograph is that that the station is on top of a high embankment. A local land owner forced to railway to be built much nearer the sea than had been
intended so a lot of work was required to maintain the levels


Caldy station site in April 2005. The platform would have been on stilts to the immediate right. The access road still exists and the yard is now a car park.
Photo by John Fogg
The track bed in 2005. This shows how high the line had to be raised to maintain the levels. Both pictures taken from the same location 180 degrees about.
Photo by John Fogg

 

 

 

[Source: John Fogg]
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