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Notes: Clubmoor 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.
Clubmoor Station opened on the 14.4.1927 to serve the rapidly
developing social housing that was being built at the time to
the north east of Liverpool.
The station was serviced by trains to Aintree Central and Southport
in the north as well destinations to Liverpool and to Manchester
towards the south.
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.
The first major service to be withdrawn was the Southport Service
which finished on 7th January 1952. A local service from Aintree
Central to Manchester with some peak services to Liverpool continued
until 7th November 1960.
Steadily traffic on the line declined and in its later years
it was nothing more than a single track branch running from Hunts
Cross to Huskisson. The last goods trains ran in August 1975.
Plans had been developed to reopen and electrify the line as part
of the Merseyrail Network but by 1979 this idea had become too
expensive. The line was lifted by a demolition train over a number
of Sundays in early 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,
West Derby, Knotty
Ash, Childwall &
Gateacre
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