West Kirby railway station
West Kirby railway station serves the town of West Kirby in Merseyside, England. The station is the terminus of the West Kirby branch line, which is one of the two branches of the Wirral Line on the Merseyrail network. There is a central island platform between two terminus tracks and two parallel sidings for out-of-use electric multiple units. A second station, which was the terminus of a branch line from Hooton, lay to the east of the Wirral Line station; it was closed in 1962.
West Kirby railway station in 2012
A 1903 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (centre) railways in the vicinity of West Kirby (present station on left; C&BR station on right)
04.09.82 West Kirby Class 503s (6887476467)
Beneath the Art Deco platform canopy, which was installed in 1938.
West Kirby is a coastal town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. In the north west of the Wirral Peninsula and at the mouth of the River Dee, the town is contiguous with Hoylake and historically within Cheshire.
Shops on The Crescent
St Andrew's Church, at the junction of Graham Road and Meols Drive
Hilbre Island, approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) offshore from West Kirby
Sunset over the Marine Lake