Wirral Railway

The Wirral Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom, lasting from 1863 till 1923, when the Grouping Act of 1921 came into force, placing the WR in LMS territory.

Locomotives
There were 15 locomotives on the WR, all built by Beyer, Peacock and co. Ltd. between 1884 and 1914. Loco number 3 was the last to be withdrawn, in 1928, so they had criminally short lives.

A Table of the Locomotives

Operations
The Line ran from West Kirby, through Hoylake, Manor Road, Meols, Moreton, Leasowe, Bidston, and Birkenhead North (where the MPD was) to Birkenhead Park. There was a branchline to New Brighton that connected at the Bidston Triangle that ran through Wallasey Village, Wallasey Grove Road and Warren before reaching New Brighton. The Seacombe, Hoylake and Deeside Railway ( a constituent of the WR) had a branch from nr Bidston, through Liscard and Poulton station to the terminus at Seacombe and Egremont. the Locos were transferred to the WR but the line was taken over by the GCR, later becoming the LNER, thus the Wirral peninsula was one of the few places outside London to be served by three of the 'Big Four' companies (the LMS took over the WR, the Birkenhead Railway was a GWR/LMS Joint line).