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    The ChesterBirkenhead line runs from Chester to Birkenhead via Hooton. Today, it forms part of the Wirral line network, a commuter rail system operated...
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    Junction Railway (BL&CJR) in 1846 to build a line connecting the port of Birkenhead and the city of Chester with the manufacturing districts of Lancashire...
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    The Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway was incorporated on 26 June 1846 with capital of £1.5 million, to build a line from Chester to...
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    simply Chester when Northgate closed in 1969. The first station at Chester was opened on the northwest side of Brook Street by the Chester and Birkenhead Railway...
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    The Hooton–Helsby line is a railway line in the north-west of England that runs from Hooton on the ChesterBirkenhead line to the village and junction...
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    main line from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside. In 1948, following nationalisation of UK's rail system, the former GWR Shrewsbury–Chester line became...
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    ground level; Birkenhead Park; Birkenhead North; and Bidston. The Wirral Line from Birkenhead travels south to Chester and Ellesmere Port, north to New...
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    town centre, it lies on the Chester and Ellesmere Port branches of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network. Birkenhead Central station was opened...
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    run by private operators. Part of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway forms the oldest section of today's Wirral line. The route between the two settlements...
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    Merseyside, England, on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network. The station is close to Hamilton Square in Birkenhead. Hamilton Square station was built...
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  • Thumbnail for Upton-by-Chester railway station
    Upton-by-Chester is a former station situated on the ChesterBirkenhead line which was built by the Chester and Birkenhead Railway. It was located by...
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    Hooton railway station (category Former Birkenhead Railway stations)
    Willaston village. It provides a major park and ride facility for Birkenhead, Liverpool and Chester, being convenient of access from north east Wales by the A550...
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    access.[page needed] To connect with the existing track of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, a half mile-long tunnel from Woodside to alongside the...
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    Rock Ferry railway station (category Former Birkenhead Railway stations)
    Rock Ferry area of Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. The station lies 4.5 miles (7 km) south west of Liverpool Lime Street on the Chester and Ellesmere Port...
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    Crewe to Manchester Line. Opened by the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, then absorbed by the London and North Western Railway, the line became part of the...
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    track. A single siding, nearest to the Ellesmere Port and Chester-bound platform of Birkenhead Central station, is frequently used for the storage of Merseyrail...
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  • The Chester & Connah's Quay Railway ran from Chester Northgate in Chester, Cheshire, England, to Shotton, Flintshire, Wales. It was in use for its full...
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    Ince & Elton railway station (category Former Birkenhead Railway stations)
    Hooton–Helsby line, serves both Ince and Elton in Cheshire, England. The station is unstaffed. Ince station was opened on 1 July 1863 by the Birkenhead Joint...
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    Crewe to Manchester Line. This station is a junction on the Crewe–Manchester line 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Stockport with the Styal line from Wilmslow to...
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    Stockport. This change will increase the number of trains departing Chester on the line to 20 per day, with the number departing Stockport also increased...
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    Bache railway station (category Buildings and structures in Chester)
    Upton-by-Chester in the north of the city of Chester, England. It is the first station for Merseyrail services leaving Chester on the Wirral Line. Passengers...
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  • heading for the Birkenhead Railway. The Chester and West Cheshire Junction Railway Company was incorporated on 5 July 1865 by the Chester and West Cheshire...
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  • Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network Birkenhead Monks Ferry railway station, a former station on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Birkenhead North railway...
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    on the same line as Warrington Central. The station opened as Warrington on 1 August 1873 when the Cheshire Lines Committee opened the line between Glazebrook...
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    Wales Rail. The line connects to the Merseyrail network at Bidston, the North Wales Coast Line at Shotton and the Shrewsbury–Chester line at Wrexham General...
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    Helsby ChesterBirkenhead line Chester Bache Capenhurst Hooton Welsh Marches line Crewe Nantwich Wrenbury Borderlands line Neston Shrewsbury–Chester line Chester...
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  • Thumbnail for Ashley railway station
    was served by passenger trains from Manchester Central to Northwich and Chester Northgate. The CLC remained an independent entity, as a joint London, Midland...
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    by the route are as follows: Crewe Chester Wirral line diverges to serve Birkenhead and Liverpool (Merseyrail) Line diverges to serve Wrexham, Shrewsbury...
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    England. The station is situated on the Mid-Cheshire line and the A559 road between Northwich and Chester. The station was built by the West Cheshire Railway...
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    of the Stour Valley Line. A Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway had opened in 1840, between Birkenhead and Chester, and the Shrewsbury...
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