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{{Infobox station
{{Infobox station
| name = Liverpool Exchange
| name = Ford
| other_name = Liverpool Tithebarn Street
| status = Disused
| status = Disused
| image = Liverpool Exchange Station 2019.jpg
| image = Aintree Sorting Sidings geograph-2148242.jpg
| caption = Railway near Ford station, the site of which was near the road bridge in the background
| borough = [[Tithebarn Street]], [[Liverpool]], [[Merseyside]]
| borough = [[Netherton, Merseyside|Netherton]], [[Metropolitan Borough of Sefton|Sefton]]
| country = England
| country = England
| coordinates = <!--{{coord|53.4093|-2.9907|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}-->
| coordinates = <!--{{coord|53.4696|-2.9743|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}-->
| grid_name = [[Ordnance Survey National Grid|Grid reference]]
| grid_name = [[Ordnance Survey National Grid|Grid reference]]
| grid_position = {{gbmapscaled|SJ343908|25|SJ343908}}
| grid_position = {{gbmapscaled|SJ355974|25|SJ355974}}
| platforms = 10
| platforms = 2
| line = [[North Mersey Branch]]
| original = [[Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway]] and [[East Lancashire Railway 1844-1859|East Lancashire Railway]]
| pregroup = Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
| original = [[Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway]]
| pregroup = [[London and North Western Railway]]
| postgroup = [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway]]
| postgroup = [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway]]
| years = {{start date|1850|05|13|df=yes}}
| years = 1 June 1906
| events = Station opened
| events = Opened
| years2 = 13 August 1859
| years1 = 2 April 1951
| events2 = Renamed Liverpool Exchange
| events1 = Closed (regular services)
| years3 = 2 July 1888
| years2 = 1956
| events3 = Station rebuilt
| events2 = Closed (all services)
| years4 = {{end date|1977|04|29|df=y}}
| events4 = Station closed
}}
}}
{{Aintree Stations}}
'''Ford railway station''' was a station located on the [[North Mersey Branch]], north [[Liverpool]], [[Merseyside]], [[England]].


==History==
'''Liverpool Exchange railway station''' was a railway station located in the city centre of [[Liverpool]], [[England]]. Of the four terminal stations in Liverpool's city centre, Exchange station was the only station not accessed via a tunnel.
It opened for service on 1 June 1906 and closed on 2 April 1951. Passenger trains then only ran once a year on this line, transporting passengers for the [[Grand National]], although this service also ceased in 1956. Demolition of Ford station was completed on 1 May 1959.


==Reopening proposals==
The station was badly damaged during [[World War II]] and lost a large proportion of the trainshed roof, which was never rebuilt, remaining an [[iron frame]]. The station's long-distance services were switched to {{rws|Liverpool Lime Street}} in the 1960s, and, as a terminus, the station became redundant in the late 1970s, when its remaining local services switched to the newly opened [[Merseyrail]] tunnels under Liverpool city centre. It was closed in 1977, being replaced by the new {{rws|Moorfields}} underground station nearby.
This section of the line still exists, although has no passenger services running and is no longer electrified, with the only trains running being for engineer access to the [[Ormskirk]] line. Plans to open this section as part of [[Merseyrail]]'s [[Northern Line (Merseyrail)|Northern Line]] have been put forward in [[Metropolitan Borough of Sefton|Sefton]]'s transport plan, with the first details to emerge about its possible reopening being published by the media on 28 February 2008.


==See also==
== Station construction and opening ==
* [[Ford, Merseyside|Ford district]]
===First station===
[[File:Tithebarn Street station, Liverpool.jpg|thumb|Tithebarn Street as it was between opening in 1850 and 1859]]


The grandly-appointed station was jointly owned and operated by the [[Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway]] (L&YR) and [[East Lancashire Railway 1844-1859|East Lancashire Railway]] (ELR), it opened on 13 May 1850, replacing an earlier temporary terminus at {{rws|Liverpool Great Howard Street||Liverpool Great Howard Street/Liverpool Borough Gaol}} a half-mile (0.8 km) further out of Liverpool.{{sfn|Marshall|1970|p=33}}{{sfn|Quick|2023|p=285}}

The station was designed by [[John Hawkshaw]], the L&YR company engineer.{{sfn|Biddle|1986|p=61}} The station had two names, as did its predecessor, because the joint owners could not agree on a name. The (L&YR) named the station '''Liverpool Exchange Station''' with the (ELR) naming the station '''Liverpool Tithebarn Street'''.{{sfn|Welbourn|2003|p=79}}

The lines into the station were carried on a brick-built viaduct with several bridges over roads and the [[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]], the lines were {{convert|25|ft|abbr=on}} above Tithebarn Street and the station itself rose to {{convert|90|ft|abbr=on}} above the street so that it had to be approached by an inclined road, it was fronted by a balustraded terrace approached from below by an ornamental stairway.{{sfn|Biddle|1986|p=61}}{{sfn|Marshall|1969|p=139}}<ref name="OS1864">{{cite map |title=Liverpool Sheet 24 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/229948128 |orig-year=1850 |year=1864 |scale=1:1056 |publisher=Ordnance Survey }}</ref>

The main two-storey building façade facing onto Tithebarn Street was {{convert|117|ft|abbr=on}} long with two single-storey wings at right-angles each {{convert|193|ft|abbr=on}} long, the L&YR occupying the western (Bixteth Street) side of the station and the ELR having the eastern (Key Street) side. Each company had completely separate facilities with the exception that there was only one arrival platform which was located on the extreme eastern side. The ELR were not happy about this arrangement as it meant L&YR trains shunting across their side of the station to get to their own side often causing delays to ELR trains.{{sfn|Rush|1983|pp=23–24}}

Each side of the station had booking offices, refreshment rooms, waiting rooms etc. each company having two departure platforms covered by iron and glass roofs designed and built by [[Charles Fox (engineer, born 1810)|Fox, Henderson & Co]].{{sfn|Biddle|1986|p=132}} There was a carriage shed and an engine shed with a turntable at the station approaches.{{sfn|Rush|1983|pp=23–24}}

From 1 October 1850 trains of the [[Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway]] (LC&SR), which was operated on their behalf by the L&YR, began to run into Exchange/Tithebarn Street station, so now there were three companies using the terminus. The LC&SR became part of the L&YR on 14 June 1855.{{sfn|Marshall|1969|pp=153–154}}

In all there were about 28 arrivals and departures each working day.{{sfn|Bradshaw|1855|loc=tables 103, 107 & 110}}

On 13 August 1859, the LYR absorbed the ELR, from which date the name of the station was '''Liverpool Exchange'''.{{sfn|Grant|2017|p=173}}{{cn}}

===Second station===
By the 1870s the station was struggling to cope with demand, in 1877 for example, there were 105 working day arrivals and departures.{{sfn|Bradshaw|1877|loc=tables 256, 262, 264 & 266}} It became urgent to expand the station capacity, at the same time the Town council was concerned about the poor road system in the area and the quality of some of the housing{{cn}}, the council, railway and canal company came together in 1882 and agreed to fill in Clarke's Basin at the end of the canal, Building a new basin and warehouse for the canal company, allowing the road system to be improved by extending Pall Mall over part of the infill with some of the remaining land sold to the L&YR to enable a

ground lower


level approach and station.{{efn|Clarke & Hewitt (1992) note "There were several good reasons for the Canal Company’s agreement: despite modernisation, many of their facilities were old-fashioned; their finances were always tight; and their household coal trade, much of which used the western side of the basin, was declining as railways opened small coal yards in the suburbs. The scheme would provide them with modern warehouses, equal to any the railways owned, while the land released would give them a regular source of income from rents or sales."{{sfn|Clarke|Hewitt|1992|p=31}}}}{{sfn|Clarke|Hewitt|1992|p=30}}

The approaches were widened to accommodate more tracks.

In 1881 the railway held a competition to design a new station, they rejected all forty entries amid accusations of favouritism, and in the end instructed the company architect, Henry Shelmerdine, to design it and to include a hotel.{{sfn|Biddle|1986|p=148}}

The reconstruction then took place between 1886 and 1888, it was hindered by the company dithering about what it wanted and the difficulties involved in agreeing the closure of roads, purchasing property and diverting the [[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]].{{sfn|Biddle|1986|p=166}}

and was completed on 2 July 1888.



Its site expanded from the original location to cover [[Clarke's Basin]] (the original end of the [[Leeds-Liverpool Canal]]).

The station continued to be the [[Liverpool]] terminus of the LYR and was also the terminus of the company's [[Liverpool to Manchester lines|Liverpool to Manchester line]].

Under four extremely long glass train-shed roofs lay ten platforms, with an access roadway between platforms 3 and 4, providing long-distance services to destinations such as [[Manchester Victoria station|Manchester Victoria]], {{rws|Blackpool North}}, the [[Lake District]], {{rws|Whitehaven}}, {{rws|Glasgow Central}}, {{rws|Bradford Exchange}} and {{rws|Leeds Central}}.

The station was one of the last to have loud speakers installed, not getting them until 1960.{{sfn|Biddle|1986|p=196}}


===Station hotel===
The L&YR opened a hotel at the station in 1888. The eighty bedroom hotel shared the building on Tithebarn Street with the railway offices being to the right of the central pedestrian entrance and the hotel to the left.{{sfn|Patterson|2016|p=59}} The hotel was designed by Henry Shelmadine, the L&YR land agent and architect, it was separated from the platforms by a carriage concourse with its own glazed roof that had an entrance on Pall Mall.{{sfn|Patterson|2016|p=59}}{{sfn|Marshall|1970|p=81}}{{sfn|Carter|1990|p=66}}

The hotel frontage was in free renaissance style with columns dividing the windows, an intricately decorated iron ''[[Porte-cochère|porte cochère]]'' and a matching projecting clock. John Pearson. a former chairman of the L&YR, mayor of Liverpool and High Sheriff of Lancashire is commemorated by a bust in bas-relief.{{sfn|Biddle|Nock|1990|pp=105–106}}

The hotel had its kitchens sited on the top floor which created problems keeping food cool during the summers.{{sfn|Carter|1990|p=70}}<ref>{{cite map |title=Liverpool - Lancashire CVI.10.22 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/229948704 |orig-year=1895 |year=1935 |scale=1:500 |publisher=Ordnance Survey }}</ref>

Author and [[First World War]] poet [[Siegfried Sassoon]] frequently lodged in the hotel adjoining Exchange station. In 1917, after having earlier written at his London club his [[A Soldier's Declaration]] which appeared in the press and was read to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]], Sassoon was visited at the hotel by Colonel Jones Williams who reprimanded him for his actions. It was from Exchange station that Sassoon made his famous trip to [[Formby]] the next day, ripped the ribbon of his Military Cross off his tunic and flung it into the waters at the mouth of the Mersey.{{sfn|Egremont|2005|p=155}}

The hotel closed in July 1971 with its business being transferred to the [[Britannia Adelphi Hotel|Liverpool Adelphi]] nearby.{{sfn|Carter|1990|p=30}}

==Electrification==
From March 1904, electric trains replaced steam hauled trains in the operation of suburban passenger services to [[Southport railway station|Southport Chapel Street]]. The journey time was significantly shorter than the route followed by the [[Cheshire Lines Committee]]'s [[Liverpool Central railway station|Liverpool Central]] to [[Southport Lord Street railway station|Southport Lord Street]] service, as the LYR's route followed a more direct route parallel with the coast, serving growing intermediate communities. The LYR route therefore proved extremely popular with passengers. The line to [[Ormskirk railway station|Ormskirk]] was also subsequently electrified, being completed in 1913.

==World War II damage==

During World War II Liverpool, being a prime convoy port, was a major strategic [[Liverpool Blitz|target for German aircraft bombers]]. Damage was caused to the approach lines to Liverpool Exchange. In December 1940 the viaduct north of the station received a direct bomb hit and collapsed. The collapse precluded trains from running into the station. Commuter services were diverted to [[Southport Lord Street railway station|Southport's Lord Street station]] from [[Liverpool Central High Level railway station|Liverpool Central High Level]]. The route was much longer initially running south to [[Hunts Cross railway station|Hunts Cross]] from Liverpool Central High Level, then circling Liverpool via the [[North Liverpool Extension Line]] to the east of the city heading north to Aintree and onto Southport. The temporary service ran from 24 December 1940 until 5 July 1941.

Temporary wooden bridges were built over the collapsed section of the viaduct restoring electric services. The bridges were not strong enough to take steam-hauled trains. Steam-hauled trains and main line services were resumed on 18 August 1941 terminating at [[Kirkdale railway station|Kirkdale]] with passengers transferring to buses or trams to the city centre. In May 1941 the worst air raids of the war hit Liverpool. A northern section of the train-shed roof at Liverpool Exchange was badly damaged and required demolition. Other parts remained iron frames until closure in the 1970s. Train services to Liverpool Exchange returned in late 1942.<ref name="disused-stations.org.uk"/>


== Operations post-World War II ==
[[File:Liverpool Exchange Station 2057102 9e8419a0.jpg|thumb|left|275px|Liverpool Exchange Station in 1954]]
[[File:Liverpool Exchange railway station.jpg|thumb|left|275px|Liverpool Exchange's departures end on 4 May 1968 showing station structure and roof and the morning express to Glasgow (Central) about to leave for Preston]]
On 3 August 1968, the last British Rail scheduled passenger train to be hauled by a standard gauge steam locomotive ended its journey at Liverpool Exchange, Stanier 'Black 5' no. 45318 having hauled from Preston the Liverpool portion of the evening Glasgow to Liverpool and Manchester train.

Long-distance services from Exchange switched to [[Liverpool Lime Street railway station|Liverpool Lime Street]] in the 1960s, with trains to Yorkshire, Blackpool and the Lake District being withdrawn in 1969 and Glasgow trains following suit in 1970. Exchange was left with only medium-distance journeys to [[Wigan]] and [[Bolton]], operated by diesel multiple units, plus the still-busy urban electric services to [[Southport]] and [[Ormskirk]].

==Closure==
The programme of route closures in 1963, known as the [[Beeching Axe]], included the closure of two of Liverpool's mainline terminal stations, {{stnlnk|Liverpool Exchange}} and {{stnlnk|Liverpool Central}} High Level in Liverpool, and also [[Birkenhead Woodside railway station|Woodside Station]] in Birkenhead.

The Beeching Report in 1963 recommended the closure of the Liverpool Exchange to Southport electric commuter route, and the line to [[Wigan Wallgate railway station|Wigan Wallgate]] via [[Rainford Junction]]. The Liverpool Exchange to Preston via Ormskirk was not recommended for closure. All routes into Liverpool Central High Level station were recommended for closure. Long- and medium-distance routes were to be concentrated on [[Liverpool Lime Street railway station|Lime Street station]].<ref name="disused-stations.org.uk"/>

Liverpool City Council took a different view, and proposed the retention of the suburban services around the city and their integration into a regional rapid-transit network. This approach was backed up by the Merseyside Area Land Use and Transportation Study, the MALTS report. Liverpool City Council's proposal was adopted and Merseyrail was born.<ref>"Liverpool City Centre Plan - City Centre Planning Group, 1965"</ref>

For Exchange, Liverpool Central High Level and Birkenhead Woodside stations this meant:

* Long and Medium Distance Routes - Lime Street Station in Liverpool city centre was to remain, absorbing the long- to medium-distance passenger traffic of the closed terminal stations.
* Local urban routes - The local urban services served by the terminal stations would be absorbed by the new [[Merseyrail]] urban network.

In the early 1970s, four of the platforms at Exchange were closed and demolished to enable tunnelling work to begin for the [[Merseyrail]] underground. Part of this ambitious scheme involved diverting the Ormskirk and Southport electric services under Exchange station and into a new tunnel running north to south under Liverpool's city centre, named the Link Tunnel, linking separate lines in the north and south of the city creating a north–south crossrail. Exchange station would be replaced by a station in the new tunnel named [[Moorfields railway station|Moorfields]]. Trains formerly serving Exchange station call at the new nearby Moorfields underground station then continue in the tunnel to terminate at [[Liverpool Central railway station|Liverpool Central underground station]], or onwards to [[Hunts Cross railway station|Hunts Cross]] in the extreme south of the city. At both Moorfields and Central stations easy interchange was possible for the first time with [[Wirral Line]] services, which until then had operated as a completely separate network.

Liverpool Exchange closed on Saturday 30 April 1977.{{sfn|Quick|2023|p=285}} The replacement {{rws|Moorfields||Liverpool Moorfields}} station opened the following Monday, 2 May 1977.{{sfn|Quick|2023|p=286}}

Within a few years of closure the old station was demolished by Oldham Bros, a local demolition company. However, the frontage of the station building was preserved and incorporated into a new office building built behind, named 'Mercury Court' opening in 1986.{{sfn|Biddle|2003|p=527}} In 2013, after a £5 million redevelopment it was renamed [[Exchange Station]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Molyneux |first1=by Jess |title=Old Liverpool hotel loved by celebrities was 'dead' on weekends |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/famous-liverpool-hotel-loved-celebrities-28643746.amp |access-date=25 May 2024 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=18 February 2024 |language=en}}</ref> The station site is still largely intact used as surface car parking. The approaches to the station still exist on the old brick viaducts. The lines descend and disappear just before Leeds Street and down under the old station into the Link Tunnel of the Merseyrail Northern Line. Parts of the original station wall can still be seen when walking down Pall Mall or Bixteth Street.

==Reopening for high-speed rail==

As of 2023, the planned route of [[HS2]] has been scaled back . There had been calls by local architects to open Exchange station extending over Leeds Street to the north and onto the approach viaduct.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://petermcgurk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/go-on-you-know-you-want-to.html|title=it's Liverpool: Go on. You know you want to}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://petermcgurk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/trade-tourism-and-heritage.html|title=it's Liverpool: Selling your soul: Heritage Infrastructure}}</ref> The proposal had been to branch off the 1830 Liverpool-Manchester line at Broad Green and onto the North Liverpool Extension trackbed. The line runs to the north then curves to the south at Walton and Kirkdale. The old Exchange station site is in the heart of Liverpool's business quarter and not far from the cruise liner terminal and the [[Liverpool Waters]] development.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2013/mar/07/liverpool-architecture-peelgroup-mersey-wirral-docks-regeneration|title=The breathtaking potential of Liverpool (and Wirral) Waters|work=The Guardian}}</ref>

==Station masters==
{{Div col}}
*John Ingham 1879 - 1897<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Day to Day in Liverpool |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000081/18971214/044/0009 |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=England |date=14 December 1897 |access-date=1 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
*Thomas Wood ca. 1897 - 1902<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=From All Quarters |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000582/19020814/087/0004 |newspaper=Dundee Evening Post |location=Scotland |date=14 August 1902 |access-date=1 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref> (formerly assistant station master at Manchester Victoria)
*Frederick Shaw 1902 - 1921<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Half-century on railway |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19210122/045/0002 |newspaper=Liverpool Echo |location=England |date=22 January 1921 |access-date=1 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
*James Abram 1921<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Exchange Stationmaster |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19210302/136/0008 |newspaper=Liverpool Echo |location=England |date=2 March 1921 |access-date=1 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref> - 1930 (formerly station master at Blackburn)
*James Hale 1930<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Lancaster stationmaster leaving |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002036/19300502/212/0010 |newspaper=Morecambe Guardian |location=England |date=2 May 1930 |access-date=1 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref> - 1932 (formerly station master at Blackburn)
*William Miller 1932 - 1938
*Sidney RIchard Sayer 1938 - 1943<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Mr. S.R. Sayer |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002041/19480130/091/0004 |newspaper=Clitheroe Advertiser and Times |location=England |date=30 January 1948 |access-date=1 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref> (formerly station master at Blackburn)
*Francis Joseph Boothroyd 1943 - 1956
*Robert W. Ward 1956 - 1961
*Matthew Edward Redhead 1961<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=News in Brief |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002134/19610517/478/0021 |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=England |date=17 May 1961 |access-date=1 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref> - 1964 (formerly station master at Rugby)
*Walter Bishop 1964 - 1966<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=New Rail Chief |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19661124/156/0011 |newspaper=Liverpool Echo |location=England |date=24 November 1966 |access-date=1 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref> (afterwards station master at Bootle)
{{Div col end}}
{{Incomplete list|date=March 2020}}

==See also==
* [[LYR electric units]]
==Notes==
{{notelist}}
==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{sfn whitelist|CITEREFMarshall1970|CITEREFMarshall1969}}
==Bibliography==
{{reflist|30em}}

== Bibliography ==
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*{{Awdry-RailCo}}
*{{cite book |last=Biddle |first=Gordon |title=Great Railway Stations of Britain |publisher=David & Charles |publication-place=Newton Abbot |date=1986 |isbn=978-0-7153-8263-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/greatrailwaystat0000bidd |url-access=registration}}
*{{cite book |last1=Biddle |first1=Gordon |last2=Nock |first2=O. S. |title=Railway Heritage of Britain: 150 years of railway architecture and engineering |publisher=Studio editions |publication-place=London |date=1990 |isbn=1-85170-595-3}}
*{{cite book |last1=Biddle |first1=Gordon |title=Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: An Oxford Gazeteer of Structures and Sites |date=2003 |url=https://archive.org/details/britainshistoric0000bidd |url-access=registration |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780198662471}}
*{{cite book |last1=Bradshaw |first1=George |author-link=George Bradshaw |title=Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, for Great Britain and Ireland |date=1855 |publisher=Bradshaw & Blacklock |location=Manchester |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6R8pAAAAYAAJ }}
*{{cite book |last1=Bradshaw |first1=George |author-link=George Bradshaw |title=Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, for Great Britain and Ireland |date=1877 |publisher=Bradshaw & Blacklock |location=Manchester |url=https://archive.org/details/bradshawsgeneral1877unse }}
*{{citation|last=Butt|first=R.V.J.|title=The Directory of Railway Stations|year=1995|publisher=Patrick Stephens|isbn=1-85260-508-1}}
*{{cite book |last=Carter |first=Oliver |title=An Illustrated History of British Railway Hotels, 1838-1983 |year=1990 |publisher=Silver Link Publishing |location=St Michael's |isbn=0-947971-36-X}}
* {{cite book |last=Clarke |first=Mike |last2=Hewitt |first2=Allison |title=Liverpool and its canal |publisher=Merseyside Port Folios |publication-place=Wirral |year=1992 |oclc=1392432368 |url=https://archive.org/details/liverpoolitscana0000clar |url-access=registration }}
* {{cite book |last=Egremont |first=Max |author-link=Max Egremont |title=Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography |year=2005 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=0-330-37526-1}}
*{{Grant-RailCo}}
*{{cite book |last=Patterson |first=Michael |title=Railway Hotels |publisher=Amberley |publication-place=Stroud |date=2016-09-15 |isbn=978-1-4456-5434-8}}
*{{Quick-stations-5.05}}
*{{cite book |last=Rush |first=Robert William |title=The East Lancashire Railway |date=1983 |isbn=0-85361-295-1}}
*{{cite book|first=Nigel|last=Welbourn|title=Lost Lines: LMR|publisher=Ian Allan|year=2003|orig-year=First published 1994|isbn=9780711022775|oclc=863421456}}
{{refend}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite magazine|title=Liverpool Exchange|magazine=Back Track|volume=21|issue=7|date=July 2007|issn=0955-5382}}


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/ford Ford railway station at Disused Stations]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040617012211/http://www.ronniesoo.com/ronnie/images/mercury.jpg Photograph of Mercury Court]
* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/l/liverpool_exchange/index.shtml Disused Stations]


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Revision as of 19:24, 11 July 2024

Original at Ford copied on 11 July

Ford
Railway near Ford station, the site of which was near the road bridge in the background
General information
StandortNetherton, Sefton
England
Grid referenceSJ355974
Line(s)North Mersey Branch
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyLancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and North Western Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 June 1906Opened
2 April 1951Closed (regular services)
1956Closed (all services)
Railway stations around Aintree
Legend
Southport & Cheshire
Lines Extension Railway
Northern line
to Ormskirk
Sefton and Maghull
Old Roan
Aintree Central
Aintree
(Sefton Arms)
Northern line
to Kirkby
Ford
Aintree Racecourse
North Mersey Branch
to Bootle
Fazakerley
Northern line
to Liverpool
Orrell Park
Warbreck
Northern line
to Liverpool
North Liverpool
Extension Line

Ford railway station was a station located on the North Mersey Branch, north Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

History

It opened for service on 1 June 1906 and closed on 2 April 1951. Passenger trains then only ran once a year on this line, transporting passengers for the Grand National, although this service also ceased in 1956. Demolition of Ford station was completed on 1 May 1959.

Reopening proposals

This section of the line still exists, although has no passenger services running and is no longer electrified, with the only trains running being for engineer access to the Ormskirk line. Plans to open this section as part of Merseyrail's Northern Line have been put forward in Sefton's transport plan, with the first details to emerge about its possible reopening being published by the media on 28 February 2008.

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Bibliography


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Aintree   Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway 		  Linacre Road
Aintree Racecourse   Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
North Mersey Branch 		 
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