Cheshire Lines Committee









Approximate routes of the CLC Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway


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Cheshire Lines Committee


Legend


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Southport Lord Street






Birkdale Palace












Up arrowto Southport












Ainsdale














Ainsdale Beach











Down arrowNorthern line Up arrow















Woodvale











Freshfield












Down arrow to Liverpool Central













Up arrow


Liverpool, Southport and
Preston Junction Railway













Barton














Mossbridge











Hillhouse Junction







Altcar and Hillhouse






Lydiate






Sefton and Maghull












Up arrowto Ormskirk












Old Roan











Aintree Junction












Southport Junction












Aintree Central














Aintree













Down arrowNorthern line Up arrow











Warbreck











Orrell Park











Walton

















to Kirkby Right arrow











Rice Lane











Down arrowto Liverpool Central

















Fazakerley Junctions












Walton on the Hill











Huskisson












Clubmoor












West Derby












Knotty Ash & Stanley
















Broad Green

Left arrow


City
Line

Right arrow













Childwall












Gateacre












Up arrowNorthern line












Liverpool Central
















Liverpool Central
High Level























St James













Brunswick
(original)











Egerton Street Junction












Brunswick











St Michaels











Otterspool











Aigburth











Cressington











Up arrowto Lime Street
















Garston













Liverpool South Parkway













Hunts Cross West Junction


























Hunts Cross

















Down arrowto Manchester Central










The Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) was the second-largest joint railway in Great Britain, with 143 route miles.[1] Despite its name, approximately 55% of its system was in Lancashire.[note 1] In its publicity material it was often styled the Cheshire Lines Railway. It served Birkenhead, Chester, Knutsford, Liverpool, Manchester, Northwich, Southport, Stockport, Warrington, Widnes and Winsford.




Contents






  • 1 Formation


  • 2 Grouping and nationalisation


  • 3 The CLC today


  • 4 Lines


  • 5 Notes


  • 6 References


  • 7 Bibliography


  • 8 External links





Formation


The CLC (originally named the Great Northern and Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Joint Committee)[2] was formed by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) in 1862 to regulate traffic on four proposed lines in Cheshire (listed below and built between 1860 and 1866),[2] formalised by the Great Northern (Cheshire Lines) Act 1863, and the Midland Railway (MR) became an equal partner under the Cheshire Lines Transfer Act 1865. Under the Cheshire Lines Act 1867 the CLC became an independent organisation, although its management consisted of three directors of the three companies. Its purpose was to control lines in Lancashire and Cheshire, an area dominated by the LNWR. In its early years, the driving force behind the expansion of the railway was Sir Edward Watkin.


It was granted powers to build a line 34 miles (55 km) long, opened in 1873, from a temporary station in Manchester to Liverpool. The section from near Cressington to Liverpool was along the Garston and Liverpool Railway, which had been absorbed on 5 July 1865. From 1874 the CLC was headquartered at Liverpool Central station.


By the late 1870s most CLC services radiated from Manchester and it became desirable to bring them into a single station – the MR and the MS&LR were sharing London Road (now Piccadilly) with the LNWR. Accordingly, Manchester Central was built in 1880, and the MR moved its trains to the new station on its completion.




map of the Cheshire Lines and neighbouring railways in 1899



Grouping and nationalisation


In 1923 the MR, along with the LNWR, was grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, while the GNR and MS&LR (by then the Great Central Railway) became part of the London and North Eastern Railway. The line continued to be joint, with a 1/3 share to the LMS and a 2/3 share to the LNER. On nationalisation in 1948 both companies became part of British Railways, and shortly afterwards the CLC lines came under the control of the London Midland Region.



The CLC today


The CLC routes between Liverpool and Manchester and between Manchester and Chester via Northwich survive. Several CLC stations remain in their original form, such as Widnes, Warrington Central and Urmston. Liverpool Central has been demolished: local services on the former CLC line, operated by Merseyrail, run through an underground station at the same site, and main line services run to and from Liverpool Lime Street. Manchester Central is now the Manchester Central Conference Centre. The loop line via Widnes Central, which was operated (although not owned) by the CLC closed in 1964.



Lines


Created from:




  • Stockport and Woodley Junction Railway[3]

  • Cheshire Midland Railway


  • Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway[4]


  • West Cheshire Railway[5]


Absorbed:


  • Garston and Liverpool Railway

Built:




  • Liverpool to Manchester line
    • Glazebrook East Junction to Skelton Junction Line


  • North Liverpool Extension Line

  • Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway



Notes





  1. ^ By calculation from M.R. system maps, sheets 16-19A[original research?]




References





  1. ^ Casserley, p.68


  2. ^ ab "Illustrated Interviews - No.23. - Mr. David Meldrum - Manager, Cheshire Lines". Railway Magazine. May 1899. Retrieved 2017-07-24..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ "Stockport and Woodley Junction Railway Company". The National Archives. Retrieved 28 November 2015.


  4. ^ "Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway Company". The National Archives. Retrieved 28 November 2015.


  5. ^ "West Cheshire Railway Company". The National Archives. Retrieved 28 November 2015.




Bibliography




  • Casserley, H.C. (April 1968). "Cheshire Lines Committee". Britain's Joint Lines. Shepperton: Ian Allan. pp. 68–80. ISBN 0-7110-0024-7.

  • Holt, G.O., A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Volume X: The North West, David & Charles, 1978.
    ISBN 0-946537-34-8

  • Radford, B., Midland Though The Peak Unicorn Books, 1988.

  • Dyckhoff, Nigel. Portrait of the Cheshire Lines Committee, Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1999.
    ISBN 0-7110-2521-5


  • Midland Railway System Maps (The Distance Diagrams). Volume 2 Leeds to Leicester and branches; Derby to Manchester and branches; Cheshire Lines (1909–1923 ed.). Teignmouth: Peter Kay. ISBN 1-899890-17-3.



External links



  • Article written as at 1935; part CLC

  • North Liverpool Extension Line

  • CLC Liverpool area

  • CLC Pages at the LNER Encyclopedia




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