Clubmoor Railway Station (Cheshire Lines)
 Clubmoor
Station was situated on Broad Lane on the south west edge of Norris Green.
It opened in April 1927 in order to serve the new housing estate.
The station was on the Cheshire Lines Committee's North Liverpool Extension Line which connected its main Liverpool to Manchester line to the north Liverpool docks at Huskisson. Other stations on this stretch of line were (from south to north): Gateacre, Childwall, Knotty Ash, West Derby; then the track split at Walton triangle and headed west to Walton on the Hill and Huskisson Dock; and north to Warbreck, Aintree Central and stations to Southport. The Station closed in November 1960 and after a steady decline in good traffic to and from Huskisson Docks, the line closed permanently in 1975. The track now forms part of the National Cycleway Network Route. For further information about the stations of the Cheshire Lines North Liverpool Extension Line, or any other disused stations, take a look at the Disused Stations page on the Subterranea Britannica website. |
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Clubmoor
Station, 1929
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Clubmoor
Station, 1951
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Broad
Lane Bridge, 2005
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Site
of Station, 2006
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Trams
on the streets of Liverpool date from 1968 when the Liverpool Tramway Company
began operations with horse drawn tram cars. The electricfication of the tram
network began in 1898 and was completed in 1903. The tram network was taken
over by the Corporation and expanded as the city grew. By the early 1930's the
Liverpool Corporation had extended the tram lines into Norris Green and the
other suburbs. The wide avenues with central reservations of Norris Green were
perfect for the tram system and the area had numerous services that connected
the city centre to Walton Hall Avenue, East lancashire Road, Townsend Avenue,
Utting Avenue East and Muirhead Avenue.
During the Second World War the tram service was severley dispruted. As well as having to deal with the constant the threat of air attack, the trams were also used to help with the movement of soldiers and the transfer prisoners of war to the camps in Hutyon and Knowsley.
In 1945 the Corporation decided to follow the trends of many other British cities and abandon the tram in favour of buses. This was seen as a cheaper alternative to the investment needed after the War years had taken its toll on the network (though Liverpool's tram system was still relatively modern). By 1948 the conversion programme was underway and took just under a decade to complete. The last tram in Liverpool ran on 14 September 1957. Tracks were either dug up or buried under thr tarmac roads. The central reservations in Norris Green where the trams ran were passed over to nature and trees and shrubs were planted.
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With
a large tram system, Overhead railway and a far reaching rail network, it is
little surprise that prior to the 1920's, buses were not used on a large scale
in Liverpool. The Corporation began running bus services in 1911 (before then
buses were run by private companies) but it was not until the late 1920's that
buses became a real alternative to the trams. The Corporation and a number of
private bus companies (like Crosville) provided services in areas not covered
by the tram or rail networks The inhabitants of new suburban housing estates,
such as Norris Green, relied heavily on bus services as the trams stopped short
of their homes.
After the Second World War, the bus services began to replace the trams as they were more flexible and cheaper to run than the trams. Then in 1969 the MPTE (Merseyside Passenger Transport Exectuive) became responsible for the Corporation and private buses operating in Liverpool.
Following deregulation of the transport system, which began in 1986, Merseybus took over the bus services from the MPTE. Then in 1989, Mersybus was sold to its employees and renamed MTL (Merseyside Transport Limited). Current bus operator, Arriva, bought MTL in 2000.