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Chester and Birkenhead Railway
Legend Cathcart Street(goods) Birkenhead Docks Birkenhead Monks Ferry Birkenhead Woodside Birkenhead Town Mersey Railway Rock Ferry Bebington Port Sunlight Spital Bromborough Hooton Capenhurst Bache Mollington To Holyhead Chester General

The Chester and Birkenhead Railway ran from Birkenhead to Chester. It opened on 23 September 1838. On the 22 July 1847 it merged with the Birkenhead, Lancaster and Cheshire Junction Railway to become the Birkenhead Railway.

Currently Working

The lines between Birkenhead and Chester, together with the line from Hooton to Ellesmere Port (on the Helsby branch of the Birkenhead Railway), now form part of the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network.

See also

• Birkenhead Railway
• List of rail trails

References

• Merseyside Railway History Group, The Hooton to West Kirby Branch Line and the Wirral Way, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, 1982, ISBN 0-904582-04-3.
• Jeff Vinter, Railway Walks: LMS, (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1990) ISBN 0-86299-734-8.

External links

• Disused Stations: Birkenhead Monks Ferry railway station

Gallery

Detail of railway at Birkenhead

Detail of railway at Frodsham & Helsby