History
Work began on the park in 1969, and the park was formally opened in 1973 by Lord Leverhulme. The park's creation followed a successful campaign by Captain Lawrence Beswick DSM which prompted the necessary investment from the Countryside Commission.
Construction of the park required the removal of 30 miles (48 km) of rail track and accompanying sleepers, the digging and forming of drainage channels, leveling and consolidation of thousands of tons of gravel or ballast, and the removal of some brick built road bridges. Of the original railway line, little remains: the old station platform at Thurstaston, the preserved 1950s era railway station at Hadlow Road, Willaston, a number of bridges and the occasional railway incline signs which indicate a degree of climb or descent.
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