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Caldy railway station was a station on the single track Hooton to
West Kirby West Kirby is a resort town on the north-west corner of the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside, England, at the mouth of the River Dee. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire, to the north-east lies Hoylake, to the east Grange ...
branch of the Birkenhead Railway, on the
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History

The Birkenhead Railway, owned jointly by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and London and North Western Railway (LNWR), had initially opened a branch line from Hooton to Parkgate in 1866. An extension to West Kirby was completed twenty years later although Caldy station did not open until 1 May 1909. The station was located to the west of the village of
Caldy Caldy is a small, affluent village on the Wirral Peninsula, England, south-east of West Kirby. It is part of the West Kirby & Thurstaston Ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and is in the parliamentary constituency of Wirral West. At the ...
and situated on top of a high embankment. This was due to a local landowner objecting to the original intended course of the line; which resulted in the station being much closer to the coast of the River Dee than was planned. The site consisted of a single platform on a single track section of the line. The station building was constructed from
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and consisted of a ticket office, waiting room and male & female toilets.


Closure

On 1 February 1954 the station was closed to passengers, although the line itself remained open to passenger trains for another two years. The track continued to be used for freight transportation and driver training for another eight years, closing on 7 May 1962. The line was lifted two years later with the station building and platform completely demolished.


Wirral Country Park

The route became the Wirral Way footpath and part of
Wirral Country Park The Wirral Country Park is a country park on the Wirral Peninsula, England, lying both in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in the county of Merseyside and in the borough of Cheshire West & Chester in the county of Cheshire. It was the first de ...
in 1973, which was the first such designated site in Britain.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Caldy Disused railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral Former Birkenhead Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1909 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1954 1909 establishments in England 1954 disestablishments in England