page_title: Garston Dock railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Garston Dock railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: Pre Grouping railway junction around Allerton &amp; Garston; Pateley Bridge; Cleobury Mortimer
context_page_description: Garston Dock railway station served Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England and Garston Docks. It was situated on the east side of Dock Road.
context_section_description: The station opened on 1 July 1852 as the western terminal of the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway and closed 16 June 1947. Soon after the station was opened the Garston and Liverpool Railway was opened bringing the St Helens Railway Liverpool terminus to Brunswick. However the Cheshire Lines Committee took over this line to connect in Liverpool to Manchester Line to central Liverpool. So the LNWR which by this time had acquired the St Helens Railway built Hunts Cross chord allowing its trains to access its Liverpool Lime Street railway station.
caption: A 1913 Railway Clearing House map (left) of railways in the vicinity of Garston Dock
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