Station Name: HALTON (Near Runcorn)

 

[Source: Paul Wright]


Date opened: August 1851 (first in timetable)
Location: On the south side of Wood Lane at its junction with Halton Station Road.
Company on opening: Birkenhead Joint (GW & LNWR)
Date closed to passengers: 7.7.1952
Date closed completely: 3.2.1954
Company on closing: British Railways (London Midland Region)
Present state: Station building in use as private dwelling westbound platform still in situ.
County: Lancashire
OS Grid Ref: SJ538794
Date of visit: 16.2.2005

Notes: Station was situated on the Birkenhead Joint Railway a couple of miles to the east of Frodsham. Today the station is situated in the 'Beechwood' part of Runcorn.

The station was opened as Runcorn and was renamed Runcorn Road on 4.1861 and Halton on 1.3.1869.

To see the other stations on the Chester - Warrington line click on the station name: Mickle Trafford, Dunham Hill, Norton, & Daresbury

 

Halton Station in 1967
Photo copyright Halton Borough Council - reproduced with permission


Halton Station in February 2005
Photo by Paul Wright
Halton Station in February 2005
Photo by Paul Wright

 

 

[Source: Paul Wright]
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