page_title: Balderton railway station
hierarchical_section_title: Balderton railway station
caption_attribution_description: English: Site of Balderton Station. View NE, towards Chester; ex-GWR Shrewsbury - Chester main line. This station had been closed on 3/3/52. It remained open for goods until 1/11/64, although this is not apparent from the photograph, which shows a typical GWR Up express (headed by a 'County' class 4-6-0) and GWR lower-quadrant signal. The station also included one end of the Eaton Hall Railway, one of the first 15 inch gauge lines
context_page_description: Balderton railway station was a minor railway station serving the village of Balderton in Cheshire, England. It was located on the Great Western Railway main line from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside. The 53-yard Balderton Tunnel is just south of the station site, and there is an automatic half-barrier level crossing adjacent to the site today.
  The 15 in gauge Eaton Hall Railway, opened in 1896 to serve the estate of the Duke of Westminster, met the GWR line at Balderton.
context_section_description: Balderton railway station was a minor railway station serving the village of Balderton in Cheshire, England. It was located on the Great Western Railway (GWR) main line from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside. The 53-yard (48 m) Balderton Tunnel is just south of the station site, and there is an automatic half-barrier (AHB) level crossing adjacent to the site today.
  The 15 in (381 mm) gauge Eaton Hall Railway, opened in 1896 to serve the estate of the Duke of Westminster, met the GWR line at Balderton.
caption: The site of Balderton station in 1961
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