The Wirral Railway was a railway network in the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula, England. Its route was from Birkenhead Park in the east of the Wirral to West Kirby in the west. A branch off this line at Bidston went north to Secombe and New Brighton. It was incorporated in 1863 as the Hoylake Railway, running from Hoylake to Birkenhead Docks. After changes of name and of ownership, it was purchased by the Wirral Railway Company Limited in 1884. The network was extended to West Kirby, New Brighton, and Seacombe, and to Birkenhead Park station where it joined the Mersey Railway, enabling through trains through the Mersey Railway Tunnel to Liverpool. In the 1923 grouping the Wirral company became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, which electrified the line (except the Seacombe branch) in 1938, allowing passenger services to be integrated with the Liverpool urban system. Most of the Wirral Railway network is still in use today as part of the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail rail network.
^ abThe Railway Year Book for 1920. London: The Railway Publishing Company Limited. 1920. p. 260.
The WirralRailway was a railway network in the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula, England. Its route was from Birkenhead Park in the east of the...
the Wirral Peninsula, which lies on the opposite bank of the River Mersey to Liverpool. Both sides of the river were connected via the Mersey Railway Tunnel...
other being the Northern line. The Wirral line connects Liverpool to the Wirral Peninsula via the Mersey Railway Tunnel, with branches to New Brighton...
The Wirral Peninsula (/ˈwɪrəl/), known locally as the Wirral, is a peninsula in North West England. The roughly rectangular peninsula is about 15 miles...
shortened to James Street) is a railway station located in the centre of Liverpool, England; it is situated on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network...
stations, 67 of which it manages, across two lines – the Northern Line and the Wirral Line. The network uses 750 V DC third rail electrified lines having 75.0...
Peninsula Wirral line, a commuter railway line in Wirral Peninsula This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Wirral. If an internal...
replaced by units similar to those used on the WirralRailway. In the early 1900s the Mersey Railway was bankrupt. The steam locomotives then used left...
Bidston railway station serves the village of Bidston, Merseyside, England. The station is situated at a junction of the West Kirby branch of the Wirral line...
and Liverpool Railway (NWLR), was the name given to the joint committee formed to construct a railway between Bidston, on the WirralRailway and Hawarden...
the WirralRailway's route from Birkenhead Park station. The station's original signal box was built in 1886, to a London and North Western Railway (LNWR)...
Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England; historically, it was part of Cheshire until 1974. The town is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west...
Birkenhead Woodside was a railway station located at Woodside, in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire. It served both local services within...
Midland Junction Railway (S&MJR), and WirralRailway (WR) and from October 1936 the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR) For information about individual...
for WirralRailway as an apprentice fitter; his father also worked there, and had been working since he was eleven years old for Great Western Railway. The...
Birkenhead Park railway station is a station serving the town of Birkenhead, in Merseyside, England. It lies on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network...
railway station is an underground railway station in the city centre of Liverpool, England. The station is situated on both the Northern and Wirral Lines...
Central railway station in Liverpool, England, forms a central hub of the Merseyrail network, being on both the Northern Line and the Wirral Line. The...
as certain railway stations. Construction of the tramway was authorised by the Wirral Tramway Light Railway Order 1994, obtained by Wirral Borough Council...
network is still in mainline use. Part of the railway is now used by the Chester branch of the Wirral Line, one of the two urban electric commuter rail...
metropolitan boroughs of Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral. It includes all railway stations in Merseyside that currently have regular timetabled...
Meols railway station is a station serving the village of Meols, in Merseyside, England. It lies on the West Kirby branch of the Wirral Line, part of...
the Wirral Line 8.25 miles (13.28 km) west of Liverpool Lime Street on the Merseyrail network. The station was built as the terminus of the Wirral Railway's...
across the Wirral peninsula, to Hooton. There are two visitor centres along the Wirral Way, located near to the site of Thurstaston railway station, at...
2013. Manning, Craig (1 October 2016). "Hopes for new Wirralrailway station back on track". Wirral Globe. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Manning, Craig. "Rail...
Birkenhead North railway station serves the town of Birkenhead, in Merseyside, England. The station is situated on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network...
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