Ainsdale Beach
Station site in 2020.
General information
Location	Ainsdale,Sefton England
Coordinates	53°36′26″N3°03′24″W / 53.6071°N 3.0568°W /53.6071; -3.0568
Grid reference	SD302128
Line	Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway
Platforms	2[1][2][3]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Cheshire Lines Committee
Pre-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Post-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Key dates
19 June 1901	Station opened as "Seaside"
1 January 1912	Station renamed "Ainsdale Beach"[4]
1 January 1917	Station closed as a wartime economy measure
1 April 1919	Station reopened
7 January 1952	Station closed[5]
Location

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Legend
Merseyside Lines
Southport Lord Street Birkdale Palace toSouthport Ainsdale Ainsdale Beach Northern line Woodvale Freshfield toLiverpool Central Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway Barton Mossbridge Hillhouse Junction Altcar and Hillhouse Lydiate Sefton and Maghull toOrmskirk Old Roan Aintree Junction Southport Junction Aintree (Sefton Arms) Aintree Central North Mersey Branch Warbreck Orrell Park Langton Dock Branch ｜toKirkby Walton Rice Lane Northern line toLiverpool Central Fazakerley Junctions Walton on the Hill Huskisson Clubmoor West Derby Knotty Ash & Stanley Broad Green City Line Childwall Gateacre Northern line Liverpool Central Liverpool Central High Level St James Brunswick (original) Egerton Street Junction Brunswick St Michaels Otterspool Aigburth Cressington toLime Street Garston Liverpool South Parkway Hunts Cross West Junction Crewe–Liverpool line Hunts Cross toManchester Central

Ainsdale Beach was a railway station located inAinsdale,Merseyside, England.

TheSouthport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway (SCLER) opened a line extending their existing system fromAintree toSouthport on 1 September 1884.^[6] Seeing the potential in Ainsdale's large beach they subsequently built this station, which opened asSeaside in 1901. In 1911 it was decided to rename the stationAinsdale Beach, which took effect from 1 January 1912.

The station was built adjacent to a hotel called The Lakeside Hotel (in 2015 named 'The Sands' and trading as a local pub) situated at the coastal end of Shore Road. A terraced row of railway staff cottages immediately next to the station still stood in 2015, although all station structures, signal box and level crossing^[7][8] have long gone.

It was served by trains fromSouthport Lord Street,Liverpool Central andManchester Central.^[9]

A total eclipse of the sun occurred in June 1927. The railway provided many excursion specials to many locations, including Ainsdale Beach.^[10]

The station first closed in 1917, along with all other stations on the extension line, as a First World War economy measure.

The station reopened on 1 April 1919, and continued in use until 7 January 1952, when the SCLER was closed to passengers from Aintree Central to Southport Lord Street. Public goods facilities were ended at Woodvale, Lydiate and Sefton & Maghull stations on the same day and there never were any goods facilities at Ainsdale Beach station. The line remained open for public goods traffic until 7 July 1952 at Southport Lord Street, Birkdale Palace and Altcar & Hillhouse stations. A siding remained open at Altcar & Hillhouse for private goods facilities until May 1960. The last passenger train to run on the SCLER was a railway enthusiasts' special train between Aintree and Altcar & Hillhouse stations on 6 June 1959.^[11][12]

The line came under theCheshire Lines Committee untilnationalisation in 1948, whereafter it came under theLondon Midland Region of British Railways until closure.

Later the track bed through the station site was used to support what is now the Coastal Road, which runs fromWoodvale toSouthport. At this point the road is also part of theTrans Pennine Trail.

• The stationDisused Stations UK
• The station on an 1888-1913 Overlay OS MapNational Library of Scotland
• Station on a 1948 O.S. mapnpe Maps
• Station and line HTSrailwaycodes
• Railtourssixbellsjunction
• Aerial photosBritain from Above
• Rare photosAinsdale Civic Society
• An early station planflickr

• Disused railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
• Former Cheshire Lines Committee stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1901
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952

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