Notes: Gateacre 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. At the time of the station opening Gateacre was a small rural village but today it is a suburb 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.

The first major service to be withdrawn was the Southport Service which finished on 7th January 1952 followed by the service for Aintree Central and Manchester on 7th November 1960. This left only the Gateacre to Liverpool Central service a popular one that ended on 15.4.1972 supposedly as a temporary measure to facilitate the construction of the Merseyrail Loop and link lines in the City Centre. The intention was that Gateacre would reopen complete with electrification as part of this network and in the future passenger services would even reopen towards Aintree. It was not to be, the line did reopen as far as Garston in 1978 and was extended to Hunts Cross in 1983 but by that time an economic slowdown had already ended any ideas of reopening Gateacre.

Steadily goods 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. The line was lifted by a demolition train over a number of Sundays in early 1979.

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

An 1887 Junction diagram shows the station as Gateacre & Woolton

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 & Childwall