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Rock Ferry became one of the terminals for the Merseyrail Wirral Line. In 1985 the line from Rock Ferry to Hooton was electrified and incorporated in the Wirral Line of Merseyrail, making Hooton a new terminus. [citation needed] Hooton is a junction station where the line to Helsby via Ellesmere Port branches off the main Chester line. The line ...
The History of Merseyrail dates back to the 19th century, with the original formation of the Mersey Railway and the Mersey Railway Tunnel, among the first underground railway tunnels. [13] The modern Merseyrail network was developed in the 1970s from lines that were previously owned by several different railway companies.
The Mersey Railway was the passenger railway connecting the communities of Liverpool, Birkenhead, England.It is currently a part of the Merseyrail network. It was extended further into the Wirral Peninsula, which lies on the opposite bank of the River Mersey to Liverpool.
When the line was extended south towards Liverpool on 1 October 1850 a level crossing was installed at South Road and the engine shed was relocated to the east side of the line just north of South Road. [1] [8] The original station site became a goods and mineral depot, there was a goods shed and a five-ton crane.
The line's original route was from Liverpool to Bury and later the most northern of the Liverpool to Manchester lines. [3] The line was split at Kirkby in 1977 with the western section forming a high frequency branch of the electrified Merseyrail Northern Line, also referred to as the Kirkby branch line.
View southward, towards Chester in 1961. The station is on the former Chester and Birkenhead Railway, which opened in 1840.The station itself opened in 1841. Direct train services to Liverpool began in 1985, when the line between Rock Ferry and Hooton was electrified; previously passengers for Liverpool had to change at Rock Ferry.
In 1865 the station and line were incorporated into the Cheshire Lines Committee. In 1880, it was renamed to Mersey Road & Aigburth. [1] The station closed in April 1972 but reopened in January 1978, as Aigburth as part of the Kirkby–Garston line of the Merseyrail system.
The station was an intermediate through station on the Hooton–Helsby line. Now all passenger services terminate at the station from both directions. It is both a terminus of the Wirral Line, a commuter rail system operated by Merseyrail and of Northern Trains services to Warrington Bank Quay. Departures and arrivals of Merseyrail services are ...