Historic Edge Hill site on heritage list

The site of Edge Hill Engine Station has been added to the National Heritage List for England as a scheduled monument.

It follows an application made by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust in 2018 to protect the location of one of the world’s oldest stations (opened in September 1830).

It was from here that locomotives were detached from trains from Manchester, and passenger coaches then rope-hauled up a steep incline to a terminal at Crown Street.

Goods wagons were descended by gravity through a tunnel to Wapping Dock before being hauled back up by a stationary steam engine.

Passenger services were subsequently extended to Lime Street in 1836, from where they continued to be rope-hauled to Edge Hill until the practice was ended in 1870.