Halewood Park Triangle is a wedge of mature woodland, ponds, and meadows defined by its shape. It sits on a triangular piece of land left behind by the convergence of three nineteenth-century railway lines. The base of this wedge marks the…
Liverpool Loop Line
This traffic-free trail follows a disused railway line through Liverpool's eastern suburbs, linking historic station sites transformed into a scenic walking and cycling path.
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1. Halewood Park Triangle
2. Gateacre Local Centre
Gateacre Station opened on the first of December, eighteen seventy-nine, on the eastern edge of the village. It sat on an embankment north of Belle Vale Road, featuring a two-storey station building that was reached by a sloping path. To…
3. Liverpool Loop Line - Childwall
The Liverpool Loop Line is a flat, traffic-free greenway that follows the route of a former railway through the eastern suburbs of the city. You can identify the path by its characteristic wide, paved track that cuts through sheltered…
4. The Loop Line - E Prescot Road
The Liverpool Loop Line is a wide, flat, traffic-free path carved through a deep, tree-lined cutting that carries cyclists and walkers through the eastern edge of the city. Stretching eleven miles from Halewood to Aintree, this green…
5. West Derby train station platform
The stone platforms remaining at this site are remnants of the West Derby railway station, which opened on December first, eighteen seventy-nine. Situated in a deep cutting south of Mill Lane, the station served as a stop on the North…
6. Aintree Train Station - Managed by Merseyrail
Aintree railway station is identified by the silhouette of horses galloping across its arch, a visual nod to the nearby Aintree Racecourse. Opened by the East Lancashire Railway in April eighteen forty-nine, the station originally served a…