Southport London Street railway station
Former railway station in Merseyside
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Southport London Street was a railway station in Southport, Merseyside.
Southport London Street | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Southport, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton England | ||||
| Coordinates | 53.6454°N 2.9999°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SD339170 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 9 April 1855 | ||||
| Closed | 1 April 1857 | ||||
| Original company | East Lancashire Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London Midland and Scottish Railway | ||||
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History
It opened on 9 April 1855 as the East Lancashire Railway's terminus for the Manchester and Southport Railway, a line that it had acquired and jointly operated with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.[1]
The station closed on 1 April 1857, with all services transferred to the adjacent Southport Chapel Street, though the station buildings remained in use as a 'repairing shed' (according to the 1894 Ordnance Survey).[1][2][3]
An expansion of Chapel Street in 1914 swallowed the site completely, though its name was preserved with platforms 12 and 13 dubbed the "London Street Excursion Platforms".[4] When Chapel Street was rebuilt in the early 1970s, the excursion platforms were filled in to make space for a car park.
