Private company

North Wales and Liverpool Railway

Former UK railway committee

The North Wales and Liverpool Railway (NWLR), was the name given to the joint committee formed to construct a railway between Bidston, on the Wirral Railway and Hawarden on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's (MSLR) Chester & Connah's Quay Railway from Chester to its link with the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway (WMCQR): the committee was between the two latter Railways. When the WMCQR went into receivership in 1897 the MSLR (by then known as the Great Central Railway) bought the combined WMCQR and the Bidston extension.2 It ceased to exist in 1905.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

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North Wales & Liverpool Railway Boundary Marker
Photo: Herr Rott, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons3

The North Wales and Liverpool Railway (NWLR), was the name given to the joint committee formed to construct a railway between Bidston, on the Wirral Railway and Hawarden on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's (MSLR) Chester & Connah's Quay Railway from Chester to its link with the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway (WMCQR): the committee was between the two latter Railways. When the WMCQR went into receivership in 1897 the MSLR (by then known as the Great Central Railway) bought the combined WMCQR and the Bidston extension.2

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Jan 1, 1905Dissolved Dissolved1

Sources

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