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Former railway station in England
Formby Power Station railway station
was a railway station on the
Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway
, situated south of Hogshill Lane and just north of the
River Alt
.
History
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The railway station opened circa 1917 as a small
halt
for employees of the nearby
power station
at
Formby
, a railway installation generating
electric current
for the
Liverpool
?
Southport
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
Merseyrail Northern Line
.
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.
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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:
Callan
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
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Sources
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- Gahan, John W. (1985).
Seaport to Seaside
. Countyvise Limited. p. 87.
ISBN
0-907768-07-5
.
and Avon Anglia Publications,
ISBN
0-905466-73-X
.
- Gell, Rob (1986).
An Illustrated Survey of Railway Stations Between Southport & Liverpool 1848-1986
. Heyday Publishing Company.
ISBN
0-947562-04-4
.
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