Notes: Notes: Knotty Ash 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. When opened the station was called 'Old Swan & Knotty Ash' but it was renamed in 1888 to 'Knotty Ash and Stanley'. It appears though that it was commonly known by the name Knotty Ash and pictures taken in the 1950s show the nameboard to show just the words Knotty Ash. At the time of the station opening Knotty Ash 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.

On the other side of East Prescot Road from the station there was a cattle depot which serviced the Stanley Abattoir which was situated only a couple of miles away. During the later stages of the Great War the fields around Knotty Ash were used by the United States Cavalry as a depot for troops that had just crossed the Atlantic. Knotty Ash Station and cattle docks where then used to embark the troops for the South coast and northern France.

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 The first major service to be withdrawn was the Southport Service which finished on 7th January 1952.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. 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, Clubmoor, West Derby, Childwall & Gateacre