Brunswick railway station
Brunswick railway station serves Toxteth and the nearby district of Dingle in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It lies on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network, situated on a short section of track between two tunnels, and between the now in-filled Toxteth and Harrington Docks. The station also serves businesses on the Brunswick Dock estate, which gives its name to the station. The residential area of Grafton Street is reached by steps or ramp from the southbound platform.
History
The original Brunswick station was opened on 1 June 1864 by the Garston and Liverpool Railway, on Sefton Street, Liverpool's southern section of the Dock Road. It was the Liverpool terminus of a new Garston and Liverpool Railway line to Liverpool. The terminus was inconveniently outside of the city centre and, after only ten years, it closed on 1 March 1874 when the line was diverted and extended, mainly by tunnel, to.A large impressive goods terminal building remained on the station site, providing a connection to the Mersey Docks Railway, giving trains direct access to the quayside at the docks. The goods terminal building was closed in the 1970s. The original passenger station building was still standing until demolition. The mouth of the former Liverpool Overhead Railway tunnel which led to Dingle can be seen just south of the station.
The present passenger station opened in 1998, on a site close to the original station but on the through route to Merseyrail's Liverpool Central underground station. The industrial former dock buildings are served on the river side, and a small housing estate at a higher point on the other.