South Shore railway station

South Shore / Lytham Road
Location
Place	Lytham Road, opposite Station Road, South Shore
Area	Blackpool
Coordinates	53°47′45″N 3°02′57″W / 53.7957°N 3.0493°WCoordinates: 53°47′45″N 3°02′57″W / 53.7957°N 3.0493°W
Operations
Original company	Blackpool and Lytham Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway / London and North Western Railway
Platforms	2
History
1863	Opened as South Shore
1903	Renamed Lytham Road
14 July 1916	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
UK Railways portal

South Shore railway station was originally the only intermediate station on the Blackpool and Lytham Railway, at South Shore in Lancashire, England, when it opened in 1863.^[1]

In 1903 it was renamed Lytham Road.^[2] In that same year the express Marton Line from Kirkham was built with a new Waterloo Road railway station at its junction with the Lytham line. The new station was just 300 yards (300 m) north of Lytham Road station, whose days were then numbered, closing in 1916.

References

Maps showing South Shore Station

Old OS Maps (estimated 1925 to 1945)

NPE Maps (1947)

Vision of Britain

OS 1:2500 Map on MARIO (about 1892)

Other maps

53°47′45″N 3°02′57″W / 53.7957°N 3.0493°W

1. Branch Line News 1026, 16 September 2006, p.210/06, Branch Line Society, Epsom, accessed via Google cache 17 October 2007
2. Hartley, S. and Mitchell, L. (2005) "Lancashire Historic Town Survey—Blackpool" (PDF). (25.5 MiB), Lancashire County Council Environment Directorate, accessed 30 October 2007, p.23

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Waterloo Road		Blackpool and Lytham Railway		Burlington Road Halt