Station Name: HESWALL

 

[Source: John Fogg]


Date opened: 19.4.1886
Location: On the south side of Station Road, Riverbank Close now occupiers the site of the station.
Company on opening: Birkenhead Joint (Great Western Railway and London North Western Railway)
Date closed to passengers: 17.9.1956
Date closed completely: 7.5.1962
Company on closing: British Railways (London Midland Region)
Present state: The ground level was raised and built over in the 1960s. No trace of the station or the track bed remains. Even the walkers, riders and cyclists using the country park, have to take a 1Km road detour to regain the track bed.

County: Cheshire
OS Grid Ref: SJ266808
Date of visit: April 2005
Notes: (by Paul Wright) The GWR and LNWR opened a branch line from their main line at Hooton to Parkgate on 1.10.1866. Three stations were provided at Hadlow Road, Neston and Parkgate. On the 19.4.1886 the line was extended to West Kirby. Further stations opened at Heswall, Thurstaston, Caldy, Kirby Park and West Kirby.


The line was a single track branch with passing loops at various points including Hadlow Road. It served the small village of Willaston until its closure in 1956. The line survived until 1964 for goods services and latterly it was used to train drivers on newly introduced DMUs.

In the early 1970s the route of the Hooton - West Kirby Branch was chosen to create Britain's first country park the Wirral Country Park. Hadlow Road Station was restored as a typical 1950s village station and it remains as such today.

To see the other stations on the Hooton - West Kirby line click on the station name: West Kirby, Kirby Park, Caldy, Thurstaston, Parkgate, Neston South & Hadlow Road

Heswall Station in 1904



 

 

 

[Source: John Fogg]
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