Morecambe Euston Road railway station

Morecambe Euston Road
Pictured ten years after closure
Location
Place	Morecambe
Area	Lancaster, Lancashire
Coordinates	54°04′15″N 2°51′44″W / 54.0707°N 2.8623°W / 54.0707; -2.8623Coordinates: 54°04′15″N 2°51′44″W / 54.0707°N 2.8623°W / 54.0707; -2.8623
Operations
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	5
History
9 May 1886	Opened as "Morecambe"
2 June 1924	Renamed "Morecambe Euston Road"
15 September 1958	Summer excursions only
8 September 1962	Closed
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Morecambe Euston Road was the terminus station of the London and North Western Railway's branch line to Morecambe, in Lancashire, England. It closed in 1962, after which all trains to Morecambe used the nearby Morecambe Promenade station.

The first railway to Morecambe was built by the Morecambe Harbour and Railway (MHR) company in 1848. It had its station at Northumberland Street, roughly the same location as the modern-day Morecambe Station. The MHR had, in 1846, amalgamated with the "Little" North Western Railway (NWR), which was taken over by the Midland Railway in 1874.

The rival London and North Western Railway (LNWR) built its own branch line to Morecambe in 1864, joining the main LNWR line at Hest Bank. The line connected to the NWR's Northumberland Street Station and the harbour, but the LNWR had to provide its own station at Poulton Lane from November 1870 because of increasing congestion at Northumberland Street. This was subsequently replaced by a rather more substantial terminus on the town's Euston Road, which opened on 9 May 1886.

The new station (originally known only as "Morecambe" or "Morecambe (LNWR)") was initially built with one long platform with glass canopy and a substantial two-storey main building built from yellow brick. A goods yard was also provided alongside, next the original connection onto Midland metals. Services initially ran to and from Hest Bank, but the commissioning of a new south-facing curve from Bare Lane to the main line in May 1888 saw most of them transferred to Lancaster Castle instead in an attempt to compete with the existing Midland service. By 1895, nine trains per day each way were running on the route and the volume of traffic using the station had reached the level where one platform was no longer adequate (especially in the summer). Accordingly, two new island platforms were built by the LNWR, bring the total number of faces in use to five.