CityRailTransit
Timeline of the Liverpool (UK) Rail Transit Network

Suburban Railway (Merseytravel)

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Regional Metro (Merseyrail)

23-09-1840: Chester & Birkenhead Railway (Wirral Line) > Grange Lane - Chester-Brook St. [single track]
__-__-1841: Chester & Birkenhead Railway (Wirral Line) > Bromborough station added
24-07-1848: Liverpool, Crosby & Southport Railway (Northern Line) > Waterloo - Southport Chapel St.
22-07-1847: Birkenhead, Lancashire & Cheshire Junction Railway (Wirral Railway) > Grange Line - Chester-Brook St. [double track]
01-08-1848: Chester & Birkenhead Railway (Wirral Line) > Chester-Brook St. closed and Chester General (current Chester) station added
20-11-1848: Liverpool & Bury Railway (Northern Line) > Liverpool Great Howard Street - Kirkby - (Bury)
02-04-1849: Liverpool, Ormskirk & Preston Railway (Northern Line) > Walton - Ormskirk - (Preston)
13-05-1850: Liverpool, Crosby & Southport Railway (Northern Line) > Waterloo - Liverpool Tithebarn St.
13-05-1850: Liverpool & Bury Railway (Northern Line) > Liverpool Tithebarn St. station added and Liverpool Great Howard Street station closed
22-08-1851: Liverpool, Crosby & Southport Railway (Northern Line) > Southport (current station) station added and Southport Chapel St. station closed
__-__-1854: Liverpool, Crosby & Southport Railway (Northern Line) > Freshfield station added
01-07-1863: London & North Western Railway (Wirral Line) > Hooton - Whitby Locks (current Ellesmere Port) - (Helsby)
01-06-1864: Garston & Liverpool Railway (Northern Line) > Brunswick - Garston
05-07-1865: Cheshire Lines Committee (Northern Line) > Garston - Hunts Cross
__-__-1874: Liverpool, Crosby & Southport Railway (Northern Line) > Hall Road station added
02-03-1874: Garston & Liverpool Railway (Northern Line) > Brunswick (former station, station closed) - Central (former station)
01-04-1878: Wirral Railway (Wirral Line) >  Birkenhead Park - West Kirkby
01-02-1886: Mersey Railway (Wirral Line) > James St. - Green Lane
02-01-1888: Mersey Railway / Wirral Railway (Wirral Line) > Hamilton Square - Birkenhead Park - Wallasey Grove Road
__-__-1888: Wirral Railway (Wirral Line) > Wallasey Grove Road - New Brighton
02-07-1888: Liverpool, Crosby & Southport Railway / Liverpool & Bury Railway (Northern Line) > Liverpool Exchange station added and Liverpool Tithebarn St. station closed
__-__-1891: Mersey Railway (Wirral Line) > Green Lane - Rock Ferry
11-01-1892: Mersey Railway (Wirral Line) > James St. - Central
__-__-1894: Wirral Railway (Wirral Line) > Leasowe station added
__-__-1903: Mersey Railway (Wirral Line) > Central - Birkenhead Park / Rock Ferry [electrified]
05-04-1904: Liverpool, Crosby & Southport Railway (Northern Line) > Liverpool Exchange - Southport [electrified]
__-__-1906: Liverpool, Ormskirk & Preston Railway (Northern Line) > Sandhills - Aintree [electrified]
__-__-1907: Wirral Railway (Wirral Line) > Leasowe Road (current Wallasey Village) station added
__-__-1913: Liverpool, Ormskirk & Preston Railway (Northern Line) > Aintree - Ormskirk [electrified]
__-__-1969: Wirral Railway (Wirral Line) > Chester Northgate station closed
__-05-1926: London, Midland & Scotish Railway (Northern Line) > Hillside station added
15-05-1940: London Midland & Scotish Railway (Wirral Line) > Manor Road station added
17-04-1972: Northern Line > Central (former station) - Hunts Cross service withdrawn
02-05-1977: Northern Line > Sandhills - Central - Garston [electrified] and Sandhills - Liverpool Exchange closed
30-10-1977: Wirral Line > James St. - LOOP and James St. - Central closed
__-__-1983: Northern Line > Garston - Hunst Cross [electrified]
__-__-1985: Wirral Line > Rock Ferry - Hooton [electrified] and Bromborough Rake station added
09-01-1984: Wirral Line > Bache station added
__-__-1993: Wirral Line > Hooton - Chester [electrified]
__-__-1994: Wirral Line > Hooton - Ellesmere Port [electrified]
__-__-1995: Wirral Line > Eastham Rake station added
22-06-1998: Wirral Line > Conway Park station added

Metro (Liverpool Overhead Railway)

04-02-1893: LOR > Alexandra Dock - Herculaneum Dock (former station)
30-04-1894: LOR > Alexandra Dock - Seaford Sands
__-__-1896: LOR > Langton Dock, Hukisson Dock and Nelson Dock stations added and Sandon Dock station closed
21-12-1896: LOR > Herculaneum Dock - Dingle
__-__-1901: LOR > Herculaneum Dock - Dingle service withdrawn
__-__-1903: LOR > Herculaneum Dock - Dingle service restored
02-07-1905: LOR > Seaford Sands - [link to the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway]
__-__-1906: LOR > Langdon Dock station closed
16-03-1930: LOR > Gladstone Dock station added
13-03-1941: LOR > Princes Dock station closed
30-12-1956: LOR > Seaford Sands - Dingle closed
23-09-1957: LOR > Seaford Sands - Dingle demolition of the structure commenced






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