Liverpool’s first station gets protected status

EDGE Hill Engine Station, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway’s first terminus in Liverpool, has been selected for protection as a nationally important archaeological site by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on the advice of Historic England.

The station opened in 1830 in a deep cutting featuring rock-cut chambers. It represents an important step in the development of main line railways.

The scheduled monument includes the start of three railway tunnels and the archaeological remains of the engine houses and associated features for the Wapping and Crown Street inclines.