Formby Power Station railway station was a railway station on the

Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway The Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway (LC&SR) received parliamentary authorization on 2 July 1847 and opened between Southport and Liverpool, on 24 July 1848. The Liverpool terminal was a temporary station on the viaduct passing near to Wate ...

, situated south of Hogshill Lane and just north of the

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History

The railway station opened circa 1917 as a small halt for employees of the nearby

power station A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid. Many ...

Formby Formby is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, which had a population of 22,419 at the 2011 Census. Historically in Lancashire, three manors are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 under "Fo ...

, a railway installation generating electric current for the

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Southport Southport is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 90,336, making it the eleventh most populous settlement in North West England. Southport lies on the Iris ...

line. The halt was closed in around 1944 and the power station closed down in 1946, though the line remains open and is used by trains on the

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. The power station building was later used by Metal Closures Rosslite Limited as a factory producing expanded polystyrene packaging and insulation products, and then as a business centre. The site eventually became derelict but plans were later announced to convert it for residential use. The power station was demolished in 2016, the whole site was levelled and work started on a new housing development, leaving no trace of the original buildings. Development of the site was completed in August 2016, including a new access road connecting the site with Park Road. The roads on the new development were named after some of the pioneers in the field of electricity:

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Crescent, Edison Close, Gilbert Close, Tesla Way, and Wheatstone Road. In February 2017, a gate was installed on Hoggs Hill Lane to prevent vehicular access to the site via the original route.

References

Sources

* and Avon Anglia Publications, . *

External links

Formby Power Station
- Formby Civic Society
Science and Society Picture Library
- Search for "Formby Power Station". Disused railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1917 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1944 {{Merseyside-railstation-stub