# Allerton Junction

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**Allerton Junction** is an [at grade junction](/source/At-grade_intersection) just east of [Liverpool South Parkway](/source/Liverpool_South_Parkway_railway_station), Allerton, Merseyside. It takes its name from the former [Allerton station](/source/Allerton_railway_station) that South Parkway replaced.

The junction is where the [Liverpool to Manchester line](/source/Liverpool_to_Manchester_lines) branches off the Liverpool branch of the [West Coast Main Line](/source/West_Coast_Main_Line). Services operating over the junction are [East Midlands Railway](/source/East_Midlands_Railway) (to [Nottingham](/source/Nottingham_railway_station) & [Norwich](/source/Norwich_railway_station)), [TransPennine Express](/source/TransPennine_Express) ([Leeds](/source/Leeds_railway_station) & [Scarborough](/source/Scarborough_railway_station)), [West Midlands Trains](/source/West_Midlands_Trains) ([Birmingham New Street](/source/Birmingham_New_Street_railway_station)), [Northern](/source/Northern_(train_operating_company)) (stopping services to [Manchester Oxford Road](/source/Manchester_Oxford_Road_railway_station)) and [Avanti West Coast](/source/Avanti_West_Coast) ([London Euston](/source/Euston_railway_station)).

## History

It has only existed in current form since 1966, as prior to this the former [Cheshire Lines Committee](/source/Cheshire_Lines_Committee) (CLC) main line from Manchester Central passed beneath the [London & North Western Railway](/source/London_%26_North_Western_Railway) (LNWR) main line and continued on to [Liverpool Central High Level](/source/Liverpool_Central_High_Level_railway_station). However the 1963 [Beeching Report](/source/Beeching_Axe) recommended that all mainline rail services into Liverpool be concentrated at the ex-LNWR [Liverpool Lime Street station](/source/Liverpool_Lime_Street_railway_station) and that the CLC Central High Level station be closed. Accordingly, a new connection to Hunts Cross West Junction (known as the [Hunts Cross chord](/source/Hunts_Cross_chord)) was built by [British Rail](/source/British_Rail) in 1965/66 to link the two routes and allow services from the [Warrington](/source/Warrington_Central_railway_station) and [Manchester](/source/Manchester_Victoria_railway_station) direction to join the LNWR line from [Crewe](/source/Crewe_railway_station) and so reach Liverpool Lime Street. This re-routeing took effect from 5 September 1966 - thereafter the former CLC line west of here was only used by local trains between Central and . These were withdrawn in 1972, but the line was later reopened as part of the [Merseyrail](/source/Merseyrail) network in January 1978 as far as and then extended to in May 1983.

## Operation

Though there are two pairs of lines through South Parkway station on the main line, only the fast (eastern) ones are linked to the Hunts Cross route - any on the western (slow) pair must be crossed over to the fast lines north of the station if heading towards Manchester. Allerton Junction [signal box](/source/Signal_box) (a flat roofed BR standard structure built at the same time as the chord) is located immediately beyond the junction, operating it and the connections into the nearby [Allerton TMD](/source/Allerton_TMD).[1]

## See also

- [Allerton TMD](/source/Allerton_TMD) depot

## References

1. [Liverpool South Parkway](http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/I/R/stnpages/liverpoolsouthparkway.html) Retrieved 2015-02-22

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