Disused Stations: Warren Station

[Source: Paul Wright]

Date opened:	30.3.1888 (first in timetable 11.88)
Location:	On the north side of Links View
Company on opening:	Seacombe Hoylake and Deeside Railway
Date closed to passengers:	1.10.1915
Date closed completely:	1.10.1915
Company on closing:	Wirral Railway
Present state:	Part of the platform was revealed during engineering work on the line between New Brighton and Grove Road between 20 - 22nd October 2006.
County:	Cheshire
OS Grid Ref:	SJ296937
Date of visit:	30.7.2005

Notes: Warren Station was situated on the Bidston Junctions to New Brighton which opened first to Wallasey Grove Road on 2.1.1888 and then nearly three months later to New Brighton on 30.3.1888. Warren Station was situated between New Brighton and Wallasey Grove Road and opened with this section of line.

The line became part of the Wirral Railway on 1.7.1891. Warren Station was served by trains going to Birkenhead Park, West Kirby and New Brighton. From the 1.6.1895 a service also operated to Seacombe. For most of existence the station only had one train each day per day but occasionally there was a full service (i.e. July 1889) Warren was never well used other than by golfers, it was next to the Warren Golf Course and it was an early closure on 1.10.1916.

The line however was always busy and in 1938 it was electrified. Today it forms part of the Merseyrail Wirral Line. There is nothing left of the station.

The site of Warren Station in July 2005 - taken from the same viewpoint as the picture above. Looking east with a Merseyrail 507 en route to Liverpool from New Brighton.
Photo by Paul Wright

Part of Warren Station platform reveled during engineering work in October 2006
Photo received from Daniel Lamb BENG (Hons) AMIMechE Priciple Technical Officer
and Ian Birch Technical Officer, First Engineering, Hooton.

2006

Station Name: WARREN