Railways

The Light Railways Act of 1896 authorised  light railways and rural tramways to be built without the passing of a specific Act of Parliament  for each  line but subject to less strict conditions than those  for major railway lines. It  led to t...

Acton Grange Wharf Prior to the opening of St John's Church in Walton, Acton Grange was in the parish and so I feel that it should be included. I am only going to concentrate on the first company based here, Richard Evans and Sons Ltd, although there...

One of the main routes opened was from Chester to Walton Junction just south of Warrington in 1850 to link the Chester and Birkenhead Railway to the London and North Western Railway at Walton. The BLCJR merged with the Chester and Birkenhead Railway ...

The Manchester Ship Canal railway is long gone but the remains described elsewhere on this site are still visible. Perhaps the Peel Group will utilise the old junction at Walton from the main line down to the side of the canal for their proposed Port...

Daresbury station served the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railways. It opened on 18 December 1850 and was originally called Moore. But this caused confusion with our other station, so the name was changed to Daresbury by 1855. The station...

Today the London and North Western Railway crosses the Mersey at Runcorn. Ethelfleda’s bridge (also known as Britannia’s bridge) was opened in 1868. But there were plans to take the railway across the river nearly forty years earlier. These plans are...

This was one of the early railway companies who wanted to create a long distance route north (82 miles) from Birmingham. Authorised by an act of Parliament in 1833, designed by the great Robert Stephenson and Joseph Locke, it opened in 1837. Starting...

As the canal was in the process of being built, there were at its height over 200 miles of temporary track, more than 6000 wagons and 180 locomotives. This was for a canal of 36 miles in length. Sadly, the main contractor, Thomas Walker, died before...

The present parish had three railway stations - Preston Brook, Moore and Daresbury. Confusingly, Daresbury station was in Moore too. There also was a fourth, Walton Junction, that lasted for around a year. As this is in Acton Grange since 1879 it has ...

Opened in 1837, initially without platforms(!), by the Grand Junction Railway, and surviving until 1948 for passenger use, this country station's closure finally came in the late 1950's. Two platforms were added by the 1870's with typical single storey...

This article is not to be seen as a definitive history of the railways of our village but a record of the opening and closing of stations and other railway related items, perhaps it is better to view it as a walk round ‘our pretty village’. Moore rai...

The station existed for no more than a year, perhaps when the BCLJR did not have access to the old Warrington Bank Quay station. There is no sign of the station, Manchester Ship Canal alterations to the route and the electrification of the West Coast...