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Chester railway station is located in Newtown, Chester, England. Services are operated by Avanti West Coast , Merseyrail , Northern and Transport for Wales . From 1875 to 1969, the station was known as Chester General to distinguish it from Chester Northgate . [ 1 ]
Chester Northgate is a former railway station in Chester, Cheshire, England, that was a terminus for the Cheshire Lines Committee and Great Central Railway. It was the city centre's second station (with Chester General ) with regular services to Manchester Central , Seacombe and Wrexham Central .
The Chester and Holyhead Railway was an early railway company conceived to improve transmission of Government dispatches between London and Ireland, as well as ordinary railway objectives. Its construction was hugely expensive, chiefly due to the cost of building the Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Strait .
Chester station was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1903. While in the 1940s Chester was a common intermediate stop for services between New York and Washington, by the 1970s this was reduced to just one daily train; the station was also served by Amtrak's Chesapeake, which stopped both ways between Philadelphia and Washington during its existence from 1978 through 1983.
The station was established to serve the growing village of Upton and the surrounding area. During the Second World War , it also served Moston Military Hospital (now Dale Barracks , Chester). On 6 May 1968 the word "Halt" was dropped from the station name.
The Chester and Birkenhead Railway had assumed friendly relations with the Chester and Crewe Railway (C&CR), and it depended on the C&CR for access to the railway network. During the construction phase of the C&CR it simply ran out of money, and on 1 July 1840 it was taken over by the Grand Junction Railway .
The Chester and Holyhead Railway opened its route in 1848 from Chester to Bangor, and to Holyhead in 1850. [1] Its promoters saw the Irish Mail traffic as the dominant purpose of their line. However, Mold was an important regional centre with considerable mineral resources locally, and the Mold Railway was authorised by Parliament on 9 July 1847.
The station had an island with two adjacent side platforms [1] because it served two routes. Services from North Wales or Seacombe with its ferry connection to Liverpool (using the Great Central Railway ) could either terminate at Chester Northgate Station, the Chester terminus of the Cheshire Lines Committee , or continue on the through line ...