One source gives Cuerdley railway station as being on what is now the southeastern edge of Widnes, England, stating that it was located near the then bone works which the 1849 OS Map shows as at the convergence of Moss Lane, the railway, the Sankey Canal, a creek and the north bank of the tidal River Mersey.
Of these only Moss Lane is no longer readily identifiable on a modern OS Map.
[4] The station was reluctantly built and opened by the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway in response to persistent local lobbying.
Receipts were as low as the company feared, so they announced the decision to close the station on 5 January 1858.
Furthermore, they added a policy that to remain open any station had to generate receipts of £3 per week.