The station was only used for passengers for six years before being replaced by Lime Street which was closer to Liverpool City centre.

[15] The omnibuses could carry sixty-eight first class passengers and their luggage and operated on a first-come first-served basis, the journey was timed to take twenty minutes and was often late.

[16] A plain two-storey building, classical in concept with Venetian windows giving on to a single platform covered by a long flat canopy on columns set close to the edge from which sprang wooden queen-post trusses carrying an overall roof to screen wall opposite.

[20] Alongside the passenger station, but screened from it were the goods and coal yards as well as access to Millfield Works.

They got permission from Parliament to provide a new terminus station in the city centre and in 1836 opened Liverpool Lime Street.

The coal trade was immediately successful and the facilities at Crown Street had to be expanded in 1831 and 1832 with more turntables provided.

[b][31][32] The railway carried livestock and Crown Street had pig pens installed, they needed enlarging in 1841 as the traffic increased.

By this time the Grand Junction Railway was also using the station facilities and they had their own separate pens and loading ramps.

[34] The little that remained of the 1830 terminus was lost in a WW2 air raid, and the coal depot closed permanently when services through the two tunnels ended in 1972.

These works expanded to include a boiler shop and an iron foundry when the station closed to passengers.