It opened on 9 April 1855 as the East Lancashire Railway's terminus for the Manchester and Southport Railway, a line that it had acquired and jointly operated with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
[1] The station closed on 1 April 1857, with all services transferred to the adjacent Southport Chapel Street, though the station buildings remained in use as a 'repairing shed' (according to the 1894 Ordnance Survey).
[1][2][3] An expansion of Chapel Street in 1914 swallowed the site completely, though its name was preserved with platforms 12 and 13 dubbed the "London Street Excursion Platforms".
[4] When Chapel Street was rebuilt in the early 1970s, the excursion platforms were filled in to make space for a car park.
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