Dingle railway station

Dingle railway station
Dingle
Dingle railway station in 2005.jpg
Dingle in 2005
Location
Place Liverpool
Area England
Operations
Original company Liverpool Overhead Railway
History
21 December 1896 Station opened
30 December 1956 Station closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Dingle railway station is a disused underground railway station located on the Liverpool Overhead Railway (LOR), at the south end of Park Road, Dingle, Liverpool. It was the only below ground station on the line. Trains accessed the station via a half-mile underground tunnel, bored from the cliff face at Herculaneum Dock to Park Road. It is the last remaining part of the Overhead railway, with the surface entrance still standing and the former platform and track area in use as a garage called "Roscoe Engineering".

The extension to Dingle was opened on 21 December 1896.[1]

Dingle was the southern terminus of the railway. The original plans was for the tunnel to extend further inland with a few more stations when funds were available, which would have made Dingle station a through station rather than a terminus.

The station was the location of a serious accident in December 1901, when an electrical fire resulted in the death of six people and the temporarily closure of the station for several months. Along with the rest of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, the station closed permanently on 30 December 1956.

There have been a number of plans and suggestions to re-use other disused underground rail tunnels under Liverpool, however, no plans or suggestions have been forwarded for the reuse of the half-mile tunnel and still-intact underground station at Dingle, even though connecting track from the portal of the tunnel to the Merseyrail line directly below is a relatively easy task.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Terminus   Liverpool Overhead Railway   Herculaneum Dock

References

  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 

External links

Coordinates: 53°22′53″N 2°57′33″W / 53.38139°N 2.95909°W / 53.38139; -2.95909



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