Monument record 2267/1/31 - Delamere Station

Presumably built by 1869 to serve the Cheshire Lines Committee's Northwich - Chester Railway. (1) Present on the 1872 Ordnance Survey map. (2) Does not appear to serve many houses although the village of Hatchmere is a little further north. An aqueduct carrying water from the Vyrnwy Reservoir passes over the railway immediately east of Delamere Station, and this could have been used as a convenient means of getting to the aqueduct for inspection or maintenance. Their also exists a goods shed and office, along with the compulsory signal box, at the stop. The station still exists at the stop in 1970. (3)

<1> Sylvester D, 1971, A History of Cheshire with Maps and Pictures, /58-61 (Book). SCH70.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1893-96, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Lancashire, 1872 Sheet 40.1 (Maps and Plans). SCH3847.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1995-2017, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 Scale Map, Sheet SJ57SE 1970 (Maps and Plans). SCH2427.