Moore railway station

Moore railway station was a station on the Grand Junction Railway, serving Runcorn in North-West England.

For the railway station in Australia, see Moore railway station, Queensland.

It opened in 1837,[1]: 61  closing to passengers in 1943, and then completely in the early 1950s. No substantive remains exist today.[2] There is now a small water-fill station. A water park named "The Station" has also been added.

The station was just south of Moore Excavation, a cutting almost one and a half miles in length.[3]

Moore Railway Station March 2019

References
  1. Drake, James (1838). Drake’s Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway (1838). Moorland Reprints. ISBN 0903485257.
  2. Wright, Paul. "Disused Stations: Moore Station". Disused Stations. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  3. Arthur Freeling (1837), The Grand Junction Railway Companion to Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, p. 37, Wikidata Q106779240
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Preston Brook   London and North Western Railway
Grand Junction Railway		   Warrington Bank Quay

53.3537°N 2.6395°W / 53.3537; -2.6395


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