Midland Lines

Section of Line	Opened	Closed	Notes
Garston to Brunswick	01.06.1864
[Skelton Junction] Glazebrook Est. Junction to Cressington	01.03.1873
Warrington Loop Line	01.03.1873
Cornbrook Jn to Glazebrook Est. Junction	02.09.1873
Brunswich to Liverpool Central	01.03.1874
Manchester Central to Cornbrook Junction	09.07.1877 (Mon)
Manchester Central (New Sta)	01.07.1880 (Thu)
Irlam Deviation	09.01.1893 (G)
Irlam Deviation	26.03.1893 (P)

	Junctions and other features	Running Lines		Stations, Signal Boxes and Junctions	Distance from Signal Box above	Loops and Refuge Sidings	Notes
	Junctions and other features	Up	Down	Stations, Signal Boxes and Junctions	Distance from Signal Box above	Loops and Refuge Sidings	Notes
Maximum permissible speed 75 m.p.h. on Main lines
1	—	–	↓↓	Manchester Central Station	–
2		↑↑↑	↓↓	Cornbrook West Junction	1m 70yds
3		↑↑	↓	Throstle Nest East Junction	0m 493yds
4		↑	↓↓↓	Trafford Park Junction	0m 1300yds	PL 20
5		↑↑	↓	Trafford Park and Stretford Sidings (No signals for main lines)	0m 738yds
6		↕↑	↓	Trafford Park and Stretford Station	0m 775yds
7		↑	↓	Urmston Station	1m 1705yds
				Chassen Road Station
8		↑	↓	Flixton Station	1m 117yds
9		↑	↓	Irlam Station	2m 687yds
10		↑	↓	Glazebrook East Junction	0m 1397yds
				Glazebrook Station
11		↑	↓	Glazebrook West Junction	0m 787yds
12		↑	↓	Dam Lane Junction	0m 1037yds
13		↑	↓	Risley Moss	0m 1533yds
14		↑	↓↕↕	Risley East	0m 1509yds
				Risley Station
15		↕↑	↓	Risley West	0m 557yds
16		↑	↓	Padgate Station	1m 712yds	DRS 50
17		↑	↓	Padgate Junction	0m 838yds
18		↑	↓↓	Warrington Central Workshops	0m 1027yds
19		↑↑	↓↓	Warrington Central Sidings (No signals for main lines)	0m 977yds
20		↑↑	↓	Warrington Central Station	0m 400yds
21		↑	↓	Bewsey	0m 890yds
22		↑	↓	Sankey Junction	0m 1146yds
23		↑	↓	Sankey Stn.	1m 877yds
24		↑	↓	Widnes North Est. Junction	1m 1404yds	DGL 104
25		↑	↓	Widnes North Station	1m 1528yds	DRS 40 URS 53
26		↑	↓	Hough Green Junction	1m 813yds
				Hough Green Station
27		↑	↓↓	Halewood East Junction	2m 568yds
28		↑↑	↓↓	Halewood West Junction (No signals for main lines)	0m 429yds
29		↑↑	↓↓	Hunt’s Cross East Junction	0m 1322yds
30		↑↑	↓	Hunt’s Cross West Junction	0m 1572yds
31		↑	↓	Garston Station	0m 1366yds	UPL 20
32		↑	↓	Cressington & G. Station	0m 971yds
				Mersey Road Station
33		↑	↓	Otterspool	1m 484yds	DGL 60
				St. Michael’s Station
34		↑	↓	Brunswick	2m 19yds	DGL 21
35	—	↑↑	–	Liverpool Central Station	1m 782yds		c.17.04.1972

Manchester Central to Liverpool Central (via Warrington and Widnes North)

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