Station Name: LANGTON DOCK

 

[Source: Paul Wright]



Date opened: By May 1896
Location: On the west side of Regent Road within the Dock Estate
Company on opening: Liverpool Overhead Railway
Date closed to passengers: 5.3.1906
Date closed completely: 5.3.1906
Company on closing: Liverpool Overhead Railway
Present state: Demolished
County: Lancashire
OS Grid Ref: SJ334948
Date of visit: 19.6.2005

Notes: Opened in 1896 Langton Dock was a typical LOR station being located on the elevated line 16 feet above street level on the iron structure that carried the line above Liverpool's busy Dock Road and directly above the Dock Boards railway which ran throughout the length of the dock system linking the various goods facilities. Upon opening it was served by trains between Dingle and Seaforth Sands stations. In1905 an extension was mad to Seaforth & Litherland on the L&Y Liverpool to Southport line. However Langton Dock Station closed in 1906 and today there is no trace of it ever having existed.

To see the other stations on the Liverpool Overhead Railway click on the station name: Dingle, Herculaneum Dock, Toxteth Dock, Brunswick Dock, Wapping Dock, Canning, James Street, Pier Head, Princes Dock, Clarence Dock, Nelson Dock, Sandon Dock, Huskisson Dock, Canada Dock, Brockleband Dock, Alexandra Dock, Gladstone Dock & Seaforth Sands

Click here for a brief history of the Liverpool Overhead Railway

 

The site of Lantgton Dock Station in June 2005. It ran from right to left across the picture in front of the dock buildings. The site is inside the dock estate now so it is nopt possible ro get a closer picture.



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:[Source: Paul Wright]


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