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A company town next to the railway, in otherwise-rural surroundings. Where is it?
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A prominent church overlooking a substantial station on a third-rail system. Where is it?
Answer: Birkenhead Park. Ex-Mersey Railway stock and Cl 503 train 20th May 1956. Image credit: John Cull RCTS Collection. Congratulations are due to the following for their correct answers: Phil Deaves, John Czyrko, Chris Neale, Paul Hopper, Jeremy Harrison, Simon Wass, Dave Goodyear, John Lacy. A couple of people wrongly identified New Brighton.
Birkenhead Park was the exchange station between the Wirral Railway (to West Kirby and New Brighton) and the Mersey Railway (to Liverpool and Rock Ferry). The latter was electrified in 1903 and, unusually, remained independent after the 1923 grouping until Nationalisation in 1948. The LMS inherited most of the Wirral line and electrified its part of the network in 1938, thus making through trains into Liverpool possible. The timetable below is from September 1939 c/o Timetable World. The station was only rationalised to its present size many years later, and appears to have stabled units until then.
The fine sandstone church is Christ the King, a Gothic Revival building completed to its current size in 1893.
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