Notes: West Derby 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.At the time of the station opening West Derby 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.

In the 20th century a coal depot opened just to the north of West Derby Station to serve the local area. 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.

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 The first major service to be withdrawn was the Southport Service which finished on 7th January 1952.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. It is believed that some excursions ran from West Derby after its closure to regular passenger services.

The nearby Coal yard closed on 1st June 1964. Steadily traffic on the line declined and in its later years it was nothing more than a single track branch running from Hunts Cross to Huskisson. The last goods trains ran in August 1975. Plans had been developed to reopen and electrify the line as part of the Merseyrail Network but by 1979 this idea had become too expensive. The line was lifted by a demolition train over a number of Sundays in early 1979.

Today the route is part of the National Cyclway 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, Knotty Ash, Childwall & Gateacre