page_title: Dingle railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dingle railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Liverpool Overhead Railway Southern Extension Tunnel
context_page_description: Dingle railway station is a disused underground railway station located on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, at the south end of Park Road, Dingle, Liverpool. It was the only below ground station on the line. Trains accessed the station via a half-mile tunnel, bored from the cliff face at Herculaneum Dock to Park Road. It is the last remaining part of the Overhead railway, with the surface entrance still standing. The former platform and track area were in use as a garage called Roscoe Engineering until 2015.
context_section_description: The extension to a new southern terminus at Dingle was opened on 21 December 1896 with the first trains leaving from Dingle station at 5am that morning, carrying a large number of dock workers. There were plans for the tunnel to extend further inland with a few more stations when funds were available.
  On the evening of 23 December 1901 a motor on a train pulling into the station fused, causing large amounts of sparking, which ignited a stack of wooden sleepers by the railside. The resulting fire spread to the train carriages and station and resulted in the deaths of six people; the train's guard and driver, the station foreman, a carriage cleaner, and two passengers. The general manager of the railway stated that the fusing would "scarcely have caused £5 worth of damage" if not for the wind which was blowing into the tunnel and fanning the flames. The station was closed for more than a year.
caption: The Liverpool Overhead Railway Southern Extension Tunnel is the entrance to Dingle railway station.
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