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railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
was located on the
North Liverpool Extension Line The North Liverpool Extension Line was a railway line in Liverpool, England in operation between 1879 and 1972. It was at one stage intended to become the eastern section of the Merseyrail Outer Loop, an Circle route, orbital line circling th ...
to the north of the East Prescot Road,
Knotty Ash Knotty Ash is an area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council Ward. Historically in Lancashire, the population at the 2001 Census was 13,200, increasing to 13,312 at the 2011 Census. Knotty Ash is well known as the hom ...
,
Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...
, England. The station opened in 1879 as "Old Swan & Knotty Ash". It was renamed "Knotty Ash & Stanley" in 1888, but it was always referred to locally simply as "Knotty Ash". The station nameboards read "Knotty Ash". It closed to passengers on 7 November 1960, to general goods in 1965 and completely in 1972. The line through the station was used by freight trains until 1975. The tracks were lifted in early 1979. By 2015, the trackbed though the station site formed part of the
Trans Pennine Trail The Trans Pennine Trail is a long-distance path running from coast to coast across Northern England on a mixture of surfaced paths, with some short on-road sections, and with gentle gradients (it runs largely along disused railway lines and c ...
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The station's history
''Disused Stations UK''

''npe Maps''
The station on an 1888 OS map overlay
''National Library of Scotland''
The station and line HTS
''railwaycodes''
The trackbed
''Sustrans'' Disused railway stations in Liverpool Former Cheshire Lines Committee stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1879 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1972 1879 establishments in England 1972 disestablishments in England {{Merseyside-railstation-stub