Storeton railway station

Storeton
Storeton
	View to the former location of the southbound platform of Storeton station
General information
Location	Storeton, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral; England
Coordinates	53°20′58″N 3°04′02″W / 53.3494°N 3.0671°W
Grid reference	SJ291842
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Wales and Liverpool Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1896	Opened
1900	Renamed Storeton for Barnston
1933	Renamed Storeton
1951	Closed to passengers
1964	Closed

Storeton railway station was located on the northern side of Station Road, between Barnston and Storeton, England.

History

Originally named Barnston, it opened on 18 May 1896 on the North Wales and Liverpool Railway.^[1] The station was renamed as Storeton for Barnston on 1 May 1900, and simply as Storeton in 1933.^[1] The station closed to passengers on 3 December 1951^[2] and finally closed on 3 February 1964.^[1] The station had a 23-lever signal box, south of the road bridge, which operated the lines to the adjacent goods yard and was used until 2 July 1965.^[3]^[4]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Heswall		Great Central Railway North Wales and Liverpool Railway		Upton

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Station Name: STORETON". Disused stations. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
^ Daniels & Dench 1980
^ Mitchell & Smith 2013, map XXXI
^ Mitchell & Smith 2013, fig. 92

Sources

Daniels, Gerald; Dench, L. A. (1980). Passengers No More. Littlehampton Book Services Ltd. ISBN 9780711009516. OCLC 16551162.
Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2013). Wrexham to New Brighton. West Sussex: Middleton Press. ISBN 9781908174475. OCLC 859543196.