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:''This station was once named Aintree: for a guide to the various Aintree stations that have existed and their relationship to each other see Aintree Stations.'' Fazakerley railway station is a railway station in Fazakerley, Liverpool, England. It is situated on the Kirkby branch of the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. The station itself has recently undergone some refurbishment work. ==History== The Liverpool and Bury Railway (L&BR) was authorised in 1845, but while it was under construction, the L&BR amalgamated with the Manchester and Leeds Railway (M&LR) in 1846, and the M&LR in turn was renamed the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1847. The line opened on 20 November 1848; one of the original stations was ''Simonswood''. This station was renamed twice: it had become ''Aintree'' by 1850, and in March 1860 it took its present name ''Fazakerley'' to avoid confusion with the nearby station on a different line, which had opened in 1849. At the time of opening, the mileage of the station was from Bury. but this has since been amended to from via Wigan. To the north-east of the station is Fazakerley Junction, from Manchester Victoria, which is where the North Mersey Branch once headed westwards towards . The branch has closed, but the junction remains as the point where the double track out of Liverpool becomes single track for the last few miles into . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fazakerley railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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