Gerards Bridge railway station

Gerards Bridge railway station was on the St Helens to Rainford Junction[1] then Ormskirk line immediately north of Haresfinch Road in St Helens, England.[2] It opened on 3 February 1858 and closed on 1 August 1905. Remnants of the line through the station survive, leading to Pilkington's Cowley Hill site, though in September 2015 the tracks were out of use.

Gerards Bridge
Location	St Helens, St Helens England
Coordinates	53.462481°N 2.730809°W
Grid reference	SJ516965
Platforms	Two
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	St Helens Canal and Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Key dates
1 February 1858	Opened
1 August 1905	Closed

St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway
Liverpool and Bury Railway Rainford Junction Skelmersdale branch Liverpool and Bury Railway Rainford Village Rookery Old Mill Lane Crank Halt Moss Bank Pilkington Glass Gerards Bridge Liverpool–Wigan line to Wigan North Western St Helens Central (original GCR station) St Helens Central Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway Liverpool–Wigan line to Liverpool Lime Street Peasley Cross Hays Chemicals Sutton Oak Liverpool and Manchester Rly to Manchester Victoria Robins Lane Halt St Helens Junction Liverpool and Manchester Rly to Liverpool Lime Street Clock Face Union Bank Farm Halt Farnworth & Bold Appleton Ann Street Halt Warrington and Stockport Railway Vladivar Vodka distillery Warrington Arpley Chester–Warrington line to Chester Warrington Bank Quay High Level │ Low Level West Coast Main Line Whitecross Sankey Bridges Fidlers Ferry & Penketh Fiddlers Ferry power station Cuerdley Widnes loop to Sankey Tanhouse Lane Widnes Central Cheshire Lines Committee (Liverpool–Manchester) Hough Green Widnes South Runcorn Gap (second) Runcorn Gap (first) swing bridge Widnes Dock Ditton Mill Weaver Junction–Liverpool line (LNWR) to Weaver Junction & Euston Runcorn Bridge Ditton Junction Halebank Speke 1864 extension to Liverpool Church Road Garston Garston Container terminal Garston Dock Garston and Liverpool Railway to Hunts Cross Hunts Cross chord Liverpool South Parkway to Liverpool Central Allerton West Allerton Mossley Hill Sefton Park Wavertree Liverpool and Manchester Rly Edge Hill Liverpool Lime Street

Services

The December 1895 timetable showed six "Down" trains to Rainford Junction and five "Up" to St Helens Monday-to-Friday, with an extra train in each direction on Saturdays.No trains called at Gerards Bridge on Sundays.[3]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
St Helens Central Line closed, station open		London and North Western Railway St Helens Canal and Railway		Moss Bank Line and station closed

References

1. Engineers' Line Reference & mileages via railwaycodes
2. Pixton 1996, p. 102
3. 1895 Timetable via Disused Stations UK

Sources

• Pixton, Bob (1996), The Archive Photographs Series Widnes and St Helens Railways, The Chalford Publishing Company, ISBN 0 7524 0751 1

External links

• A detailed history via Disused Stations UK
• The station on an 1888-1913 Overlay OS Map via National Library of Scotland