Gateacre railway station

53°23′05″N 2°51′36″W / 53.3846°N 2.8599°W / 53.3846; -2.8599Grid referenceSJ429879Line(s)North Liverpool Extension LinePlatforms2^[1][2]Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyCheshire Lines CommitteePre-groupingCheshire Lines CommitteePost-groupingCheshire Lines CommitteeKey dates1 December 1879Station opened to passengers as "Gateacre (for Woolton)"March 1882Opened for goods4 December 1965Closed for goods15 April 1972Closed completely^[3][4]

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Merseyside Lines
Southport Lord Street Birkdale Palace to Southport Ainsdale Ainsdale Beach Northern line Woodvale Freshfield to Liverpool Central Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway Barton Mossbridge Hillhouse Junction Altcar and Hillhouse Lydiate Sefton and Maghull to Ormskirk Old Roan Aintree Junction Southport Junction Aintree Central Aintree Northern line Warbreck Orrell Park Walton to Kirkby Rice Lane to Liverpool Central Fazakerley Junctions Walton on the Hill Huskisson Clubmoor West Derby Knotty Ash & Stanley Broad Green City Line Childwall Gateacre Northern line Liverpool Central Liverpool Central High Level St James Brunswick (original) Egerton Street Junction Brunswick St Michaels Otterspool Aigburth Cressington to Lime Street Garston Liverpool South Parkway Hunts Cross West Junction Hunts Cross to Manchester Central

Gateacre (for Woolton) railway station was located on the North Liverpool Extension Line on the north side of Belle Vale Road, Gateacre, Liverpool, England. Next door was the Black Bull public house which still stands.

Official maps, tickets, timetables, a large exterior station sign and platform nameboards variously refer to the station as "Gateacre", "Gateacre, for Woolton", "Gateacre for Woolton" and "Gateacre & Woolton". "Gateacre" is pronounced "Gattiker."

The station had outlived those on the same line north of Aintree by twenty years and all the remainder by twelve years when it closed to passengers on 15 April 1972. It had latterly been the suburban terminus of the sole residual service from Liverpool Central (High Level). It was planned that the station would reopen as the southern terminus of Merseyrail's Northern Line. This never occurred, with Hunts Cross becoming the terminus. The tracks through the station site were used for freight trains to Liverpool Docks until 1975. They were lifted in early 1979.

By 2015 the trackbed though the station site formed part of the Trans Pennine Trail.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Hunts Cross Line closed, station open		Cheshire Lines Committee North Liverpool Extension Line		Childwall Line and station closed
Halewood Line closed, station open

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External links

• "The station's history". Disused Stations UK.
• "The station on a 1948 O.S. map". npe Maps.
• "The station on an 1888 OS map overlay". National Library of Scotland.
• "The station and line HTS". railwaycodes.
• "The trackbed". Sustrans.
• "The station signalbox". Liverpool Connections.
• "The residual service". 8D Association.
• "Gateacre and its station". Brian Daugherty.