Notes: Childwall Station was situated on the Cheshire Lines Committee's North Liverpool Extension Line which connected its main Liverpool to Manchester line to the north Liverpool docks at Huskisson by skirting through agricultural land to the east of Liverpool. On 1st September 1884 a further extension of the route opened to Southport Lord Street.

The line was always busy with goods trains accessing the docks but a number of passenger services served the station. Services went north to Aintree Central and Southport as well as to Huskisson although this latter service was cut back to Walton on the Hill as early as 1885 and ceased altogether on 1st January 1918. To the South trains served destinations to Liverpool and to Manchester.

The CLC North Liverpool Extension line was always very busy on Grand National days as express trains from all over the country used it to access Aintree Central.

Childwall Station was somewhat remote from the village of Childwall in a sparsely populated rural area. As a result it was an early closure shutting its doors to passengers on 1.1.1931 and to goods in 6.8.1943. Ironically within 25 years the area was a built up suburb of Liverpool.

Regular passenger services continued to pass through the site until 1960 and for a few years after that Grand National specials operated to Aintree Central. However by 1975 this once busy line that had carried so much traffic to and from Liverpool's north docks was just a basic railway reduced to a single track branch for its entire route. Goods services finished in August 1975 and the line was lifted in April 1979.

Today the route is part of the National Cycleway Network Route 62 which is The Trans Pennine Trail.

To see the other stations on the CLC North Liverpool Extension Line click on the station name: Aintree Central, Warbreck, Walton on the Hill, Huskisson, Clubmoor, West Derby, Knotty Ash & Gateacre