Garston and Liverpool Railway

The Garston and Liverpool Railway line ran from the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway line at Garston Docks to Brunswick railway station, later to central Liverpool. The company was formed on 17 May 1861 and the line opened on 1 June 1864.

Garston Dock station had opened in 1852 as the terminus of the St Helens Canal and Railway Company's line from Warrington. The Act of Parliament for this line had also given the company rights to construct a deepwater dock on the River Mersey at Garston, extending the early St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway further down the Mersey to a better and less tidal port. The company also aspired to reach Liverpool and the Garston and Liverpool Railway would be the means for this, extending beyond the Garston terminus, and following the Mersey downstream to the North West.

It was absorbed by the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) on 5 July 1865, whose Liverpool to Manchester line joined it at Cressington Junction.

The first terminus at Brunswick was poorly placed as a station to serve central Liverpool and almost as soon as it opened, an Act of Parliament was obtained for the Liverpool Central Station Railway, which would divert from just before Brunswick through a mile and a half of deep cuttings and tunnels in the red sandstone through St James and to a terminus at Liverpool Central. The extensive civil engineering works needed meant that construction took nearly ten years, opening on 2 March 1874. Brunswick station remained open as a goods station between Harrington Dock and Herculaneum Dock into the 1970s.

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