Garston and Liverpool Railway

It was absorbed by the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) on 5 July 1865, whose Liverpool to Manchester line joined it at Cressington Junction. == Extension to Liverpool Central ==

The first terminus at Brunswick was poorly placed as a station to serve central Liverpool and almost as soon as it opened, an act of Parliament, the ' (27 & 28 Vict. c. ccxc) was obtained for the Liverpool Central Station Railway', Brunswick station remained open as a goods station between Harrington Dock and Herculaneum Dock into the 1970s. == Stations ==

Most of the station buildings were above, or even across, the lines. • • • • • • == Closure and re-opening ==

Although the line had been built through mostly open countryside, Liverpool's southern suburbs began to develop and expand along the line around this time, making it an important commuter route into Central station, the most central of Liverpool's three major termini. Competition for routes along the Mersey had led to duplication of routes within the Cheshire Lines Committee and against their competitors the London and North Western Railway. Although Central was always a busy station, it was scheduled for closure under the Beeching Axe, services to Central from Warrington and beyond Garston being re-routed around the Allerton Curve, the L&NWR Speke to Edge Hill line, The line would re-open again in 1978, as part of the electrified Merseyrail network, which integrated the underground and under-river Mersey Railway with suburban lines to North and South of Liverpool. The Garston line formed the southern portion of Merseyrail's Northern Line. ==References==