Notes: Notes: Crown Street was the original western passenger terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway the world's first railway to cater for passengers as one of its primary functions. It was also arguably the worlds first inter city railway.

Crown Street was situated at the end of a single track tunnel that led up to the station from Edge Hill. Locomotives only went as far as Edge Hill to an engine transfer point, the site of the famous Moorish Arch and also the point at which the Wapping Tunnel, which led down to the docks, started. Coaches were cable worked up to Crown Street and proceeded by gravity from the Station down to Edge Hill.

Such was the monumental success of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway the Crown Street passenger terminus soon proved inadequate due to its size and distance from the city centre and it was closed on 15th August 1836. A new terminus was opened at Lime Street, much closer to the city centre.

The site which was connected to Edge Hill by a further Tunnel in the 1840s became a Goods depot. It remained open as a rail served coal depot until as recently as 1972. Today the site is a landscaped public park, no sign of the original tunnel that linked the station to Edge Hill which was built in 1829 remains. It is still there but buried at its western portal.

The later 1840s tunnel can still be seen at the top end of the site close to the children's play area. It is still rail served and is used as a head shunt for freight trains that arrive at Edge Hill

Click here for a detailed history of the Edge Hill cutting and tunnels, including pictures inside the 1829 Crown Street Tunnel

See also Crown Street Coal Yard web site for additional pictures of the Crown Street coal yard and Edge Hill cutting.

To see the other closed stations on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway click on the station name: Liverpool Crown Street, Huyton Quarry, Lea Green, Collins Green, Parkside 1st, Parkside 2nd, Kenyon Junction, Glazebury and Bury Lane, Flow Moss, Astley, Lambs Cottage, Barton Moss 1st, Barton Moss 2nd, Weaste, Seedley, Cross Lane & Ordsall Lane