
Time Capsules
Ainsdale Railway Station c1960Photo of the Ainsdale Railway Station, near Southport, England. Note that the rail is closed / gates are open.
The two platform Ainsdale train station was opened in 1848 on the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway. In 1904 it became part of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, in 1923 of London, Midland and Scottish Railway and in 1948 of British Rail.
Nowadays it is part of Merseyrail Network's Northern Line, currently managed by Merseyrail.
Photo © The Step Back Through Time Collection
Picture added on 19 February 2009
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Step back through Time, trains and stations
Step back through Time, trains and stations
A 2005 shot, by stephen craven, with a merseyrail train, taken from the station footbridge: see www.geograph.org.uk/photo/199791
Added by Martin Bodman on 24 January 2010