St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway

St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway
1832 view of the bridge over the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first bridge
of one railway over another in the world.
Overview
LocaleCheshire
Merseyside
North West England
Technical
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Route map

Rainford Junction
Rainford Village
Rookery
Old Mill Lane
Crank Halt
Moss Bank
Pilkington
Gerards Bridge
St Helens Central
(original GCR station)
St Helens Central
Peasley Cross
Hays Chemicals
Sutton Oak
Robins Lane Halt
St Helens Junction
Clock Face
Union Bank Farm Halt
Farnworth & Bold
Appleton
Ann Street Halt
Warrington Arpley
Warrington Bank Quay
High Level│Low Level
Whitecross
Sankey Bridges
Fidlers Ferry & Penketh
Fiddlers Ferry power station
Cuerdley
Tanhouse Lane
Widnes Central
Up arrowDown arrow
Cheshire Lines Committee
(Liverpool–Manchester)
Hough Green
Widnes South
Runcorn Gap
(second)
Runcorn Gap
(first)
Widnes Dock
Ditton Mill
Ditton Junction
Halebank
Speke
1864 extension
to Liverpool
Church Road Garston
Garston Container terminal
Garston Dock
Liverpool South Parkway
Allerton
West Allerton
Mossley Hill
Sefton Park
Wavertree
Edge Hill
Liverpool Lime Street
Details of the line at Rainford, 1908 (lower)
Details of the line around Widnes, 1909 (left)
Railway Clearing House Junction Diagrams showing portions of the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway

The St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway was an early railway line owned by a company of the same name in Lancashire, England, which opened in 1833. It was later known as St Helens Railway. It ran originally from the town of St Helens to the area which would later develop into the town of Widnes. Branches were opened to Garston, Warrington and Rainford. The company was taken over by the London and North Western Railway in 1864. The line from St Helens to Widnes and the branch to Rainford are now closed, the latter terminating at the Pilkington Glass' Cowley Hill works siding near Gerard's Bridge, but part of the lines to Garston and to Warrington are still in operation.