Sunday, March 18 – 1900
No reference to notable railway stations in England would possibly be complete that omitted t mention the Riverside Station at Liverpool of the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board.
It is to this station that the American specials are run with intending passengers for the States, or to bring arrivals from there to London. Riverside Station is admirably and situated for the purpose it has to fulfil.
On one side it has the famous Prince’s Dock, and on the other the open Mersey, so deep that the steamers can come right up to the side of the wharf, and thus the embarkation or disemarkation of passengers and goods is much faciliated.
There are probably few stations out of London that are so constantly busy as is Riverside. Almost every day, except Friday, the “ocean greyhounds” of some Transatlantic line are setting out, or arriving, and often there are as many as three steamships of the larger companies departing on one day, besides as many coming in. – “English Illustrated Magazine”.
(Birmingham Sunday Mail, 18-03-1900)
Riverside Station. Image and more info can be found here.
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