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Chester and Birkenhead Railway
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The Chester and Birkenhead Railway ran from Birkenhead to Chester then on to Acton Grange East Junction. It opened on 23 September 1838 and was joint railway owned by the London and North Western Railway and the Great Western Railway.
A branch from Hooton to Helsby was opened on 1 July 1863.
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A single, twelve mile line branch from Hooton to Parkgate opened on 1 October 1866. On 19 April 1886 the line was extended to West Kirby where it connected to the Wirral Railway. Closed to passengers in 1956 and to freight traffic in 1962, the track bed of this route is now the Wirral Way, a footpath forming part of the Wirral Country Park.
The lines between Birkenhead and Chester, and from Hooton to Ellesmere Port (on the Helsby branch) now form part of the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network.
- Merseyside Railway History Group, The Hooton to West Kirby Branch Line and the Wirral Way, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, 1982, ISBN 0-904582-04-3.
- Jeff Vinter, Railway Walks: LMS, (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1990) ISBN 0-86299-734-8.