Station Name: CLUBMOOR

 

[Source: Paul Wright]


Date opened: 14.4.1927
Location: On the south side of Broad Lane
Company on opening: Cheshire Lines Committee
Date closed to passengers: 7.11.1960
Date closed completely: 7.11.1960
Company on closing: British Railways (London Midland Region)
Present state: Some remnants of station platforms and fence posts survive as do the station access ramp from street level.
County: Lancashire
OS Grid Ref: SJ384942
Date of visit: 6.2.2005

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The first major service to be withdrawn was the Southport Service which finished on 7th January 1952.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

 

The site of Clubmoor Station in February 2005
P
hoto by Paul Wright



Clubmoor Station in 1929

Clubmoor Station in February 2005 - the exit from the platform down to Broad Lane.
P
hoto by Paul Wright

1951

1960

Station entrance

Broad Lane bridge



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[Source: Paul Wright]


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