Engine Sheds of the Cheshire Lines Committee
Shed Name | Shed Type | Shed Closed | Shed Code 1950 |
Allerton | 10 road straight, dead end, brick | c.1897 | |
Birkenhead (Shore Road) | 1 road straight, dead end, timber. 90ft long. Gable roof. | 5/06/1961 | |
Brunswick (Garston&Liverpool) | Half-roundhouse. 6 covered roads. Probably brick. Opened 1864. | 1879-80 | |
Brunswick (MSLR Shed No.1) | 3 road timber. Opened 1874. | 02/1929 | |
Brunswick (MSLR Shed No.2) | 5 road straight, dead end, brick. Opened 1879. Re-roofed 1956. | 12/09/1961 | 8E |
Chester | 2 road straight, dead end, brick | 04/01/1960 | 6D |
Cornbrook (Junction) | 3 road partially curved, through, brick. MS&LR origin. | March 1895 | |
Heaton Mersey | 8 road straight, dead end, brick | 06/05/1968 | 9F |
Helsby & Alvanley | 2-road shed, dead end, wood | 1929 | |
Knutsford | 2 road straight. Cheshire Midland origin. | 1869 | |
Northwich | 4 road straight (2 pitch roof), dead end, brick | 04/03/1968; diesel to 1980s | 9G |
Padgate | 1 road through, timber. | 1929 | |
Southport (Lord Street) | 2 road straight, dead end. Slated gable roof | 07/07/1952 | |
Stockport Tiviot Dale | 2 road straight, dead end. | March 1889 | |
Trafford Park | 20 road straight, dead end, brick | 04/03/1968 | 9E |
Walton-on-the-Hill | 4 road straight, dead end, brick. Northlight pattern roof. 6 roads 1885-1952. | 15/12/1963 | 13F (1948-9), 27E (1950-63), 8R (1963) |
Warrington Central | Small 1 road straight, through. Servicing only from 1905-66. | 1966 | 8F |
Winsford | 1 road straight, dead end. 2 roads from 1892. | July 1929 |
Note: Birkenhead shed was remote from the system and reached by means of MS&LR / GCR.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Richard Barron and Phil Mackie for the above information.
Thank you to Roger Griffiths for the photographs of Helsby & Alvanley and Brunswick sheds.