Norton (Cheshire) railway station

Norton (Cheshire)
Location
Area	Halton
Coordinates	53°19′46″N 2°39′50″W / 53.3295°N 2.6638°WCoordinates: 53°19′46″N 2°39′50″W / 53.3295°N 2.6638°W
Grid reference	SJ559815
Operations
Original company	Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Birkenhead Joint Railway
Post-grouping	Birkenhead Joint Railway
Platforms	2
History
18 December 1850	Opened as Norton
1926	Renamed Norton (Cheshire)
1 September 1952	Closed
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Norton railway station was a station near Norton, a village to the east of Runcorn, Cheshire, England.^[1][2] It was located just north of the 1.25 mile (2km) Sutton Tunnel and was built as a result of the recommendations of a Board of Trade enquiry into a fatal accident in the tunnel the previous year.

It was opened by the Birkenhead, Lancashire & Cheshire Joint Railway company on 18 December 1850; originally named Norton, it was renamed Norton (Cheshire) in 1926; and it was closed to passenger traffic by the British Transport Commission on 1 September 1952.^[3] Most of the station has since been demolished, but the old station house remains in use as a private dwelling and there is a signal box nearby that still bears this name. A new station, known as Runcorn East was opened a few metres south of the original site in October 1983 to serve the southern end of Runcorn new town.

References

1. Subterranea Britannica: SB-Sites:Norton Station
2. British Railways Atlas.1947. p.20
3. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 174. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.

External links

• Norton @ Disused Stations