LIVERPOOL & MANCHESTER Part 2: Cheshire Lines

The thirty-mile long band of land between Manchester and Liverpool must have one of the densest railway networks in the country. There are over eighty stations, seven termini and ten engine sheds, and this takes no account of the north-to-south lines, goods lines and dock railways. Add to this the fact that some of the earliest railway lines in the world were developed here and you have one of the most fascinating railway areas in England.
Many of the best known railway companies competed for the vast traffic of people and materials, much of it originating in the pits and steel mills of Yorkshire, and ending in the docks in the two cities. The respective ends of the lines were no more than 1,000 yards apart from each other in each city, yet in the countryside of Lancashire they ranged from Wigan in the north to Widnes in the south, a distance of over 15 miles. It is still possible to travel over 120 miles of these lines today.

This book takes us on an imaginary journey between the cities, retraced station by station, along the Cheshire Lines - jointly owned by the Great Northern, Great Central and Midland Railways. It also includes a look at the Liverpool Overhead Railway.

The previous volume in this series covered the LNWR routes, and the series will be completed with a look at the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway line between these major cities. 

Author: Bob Pixton
Format: HB 120 pages
Publisher: Kestrel Railway Books
Pub date: April 2007
ISBN: 9781905505036

List Price: £14.95