Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway

Liverpool, Crosby
and Southport Railway
Liverpool, Crosby; and Southport Railway
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The Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway (LC&SR) received parliamentary authorization on 2 July 1847 and opened between Southport and Liverpool, on 24 July 1848. The Liverpool terminal was a temporary station on the viaduct passing near to Waterloo Goods station.^[1]

LC&SR later operations

The line was extended from Waterloo Goods Station to Liverpool Tithebarn Street/Liverpool Exchange, the station had two names, which later settled on the name

Liverpool Exchange station, on 13 May 1850.^[2]^[3] The original Southport terminus was at Eastbank Street, until that station was closed on the opening of the current Chapel Street station on 22 August 1851.^[4]

Operations by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

The LC&SR became part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR), on 14 June 1855.^[5] The LYR electrified the line, initially using a four rail system, later altered to third-rail, and services started on 5 April 1904. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922 and in turn was Grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.