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The 'Cheshire Lines' series of caches are of various sizes placed on the disused railway line part of which is converted into a multi use route for walkers, cyclists, and horse riders, the Cheshire Lines Path provides a 5 mile (8 km) link between Southport and Maghull.
The Cheshire Lines Railway Company used to operate services across the Lancashire Mossland between Liverpool and Southport.
After its closure in 1952 part of the line was aquired by West Lancashire Borough Council in 1988 and was constructed as a dual use cycle and footpath with parallel bridleway.
The Cheshire Lines Path forms part of the Trans Pennine Trail, a coast to coast route linking the resorts of Southport and Hornsea and the major centres of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Hull.
The Ainsdale Beach station opened as part of the Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension Railway which ran between Aintree Central and Southport Lord Street in 1901; the station was named Seaside until 1.1.1912 when it became Ainsdale Beach.
The line was designed to give access to the lucrative holiday market at Southport as an alternative to the L & Y route.
From the beginning the line was served by trains from Liverpool Central and from Manchester the former following a circuitous route that could not hope to compete with the direct Liverpool Exchange to Southport Chapel Street Route.
This cache is close to the site of the Ainsdale Beach Station which stood on the north side of a level crossing and consisted of two platforms with wooden waiting shelters on each side.
The station closed to passengers on 1.1.1917 as a war time economy measure and re-opened on 1.4.1919.
The line did not survive long into the nationalisation period and Ainsdale Beach Station closed entirely on 7.1.1952.
Today the route of the line between Birkdale Palace and Woodvale forms the Coastal Road which runs between the extensive dune system that stretches along the Sefton Coast to the south of Southport.
Today some of the stations fencing posts can still be seen at what would have been the rear of the southbound platform. Also still standing are a row of railway cottages just to the east of the station site.
The given coordinates will take you to the site of the station, the cache cannot be placed there as it would be too close to other caches.
But you will need to go to the given coordinates to work out how to get to the final location.
Standing at the given coordinates you will see a road sign with the numbers of two A roads, (Axxx) (Ayyy), make a note of these two numbers.
Using the original coordinates N53 36.409 W003 03.416, first take 409 and add it to xxx then take away 544 this will give you the correct northerly coordinate N53 36.xxx.
Now take 416 and add it to yyy then take away 371 this will give you the correct westerly coordinate W003 03.yyy
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