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Season 8, Episode 151 - Trains at Chester station

After a morning chasing up some specials in Crewe, we head up the North Wales Coast Line to the beating heart of Cheshire for little stint at Chester train station Opened in 1848, Chester General station was a joint station between the Chester and Holyhead Railway, the Chester and Crewe Railway and the Birkenhead Railway. Later these became the London and North Western Railway, which took over the Chester and Holyhead and the Chester and Crewe, and the Great Western Railway which ran the line to Wrexham and Shrewsbury. These companies owned the Birkenhead Railway jointly. Architecturally the station has an Italianate frontage designed by Francis Thompson. The station also has carved wooden owls at some strategic locations high in the roof beams to help deter feral pigeons. GWR and latterly BR Western Region express passenger trains operated from Birkenhead Woodside via Chester, Wrexham, Ruabon, Gobowen, Shrewsbury, Wellington (Salop), Wolverhampton, Birmingham Snow Hill, Leamington Spa and Banbury to London Paddington station until 4th March 1967. The final service, a special named The Zulu, was hauled by the Castle Class steam locomotive 7029 Clun Castle. From 1875, Chester was also served by Chester Northgate station; however, that station was closed in 1969 and is now the site of a leisure centre. In 1993, a line extension of the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network was accomplished through the use of third rail electrification. The line ended at the station, and became the terminus of a branch of the Wirral Line, and providing frequent rapid access along the Wirral to Birkenhead and all four underground stations in central Liverpool. The historic Chester and Birkenhead Railway, the first railway to serve Chester then became a part of Merseyrail's Wirral Line. Nowadays, in this video, we see a variety of Arriva Trains Wales, Merseyrail Electrics, Northern Rail and Virgin Trains stock heading for a variety of destinations including Holyhead, Birkenhead Central, Llandudno, Manchester Piccadilly and London Euston. Please rate, comment and subscribe and thanks for watching!