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{{Short description|Former railway station in England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2017}}
{{Infobox station
| name                = Gladstone Dock
| status              = Disused
| image               =
| borough             = [[Liverpool]], [[Liverpool]], [[Merseyside]]
| country             = England
| platforms           = 2
| postgroup           = [[Liverpool Overhead Railway]]
| years               = 16 June 1930
| events              = Opened
| years2              = 30 December 1956
| events2             = Closed completely
}}
'''Gladstone Dock''' was a station on the [[Liverpool Overhead Railway]], between [[Alexandra Dock (LOR) railway station|Alexandra Dock]] and [[Seaforth Sands railway station|Seaforth Sands]]. It was opened on 16 June 1930, the final station to open on the network.
It was named after the adjacent [[Gladstone Dock]], and was the only station on the network to be accessible directly from the dockside, with two steel bridges connecting the platforms,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title = New Liverpool Station|date = 16 June 1930|work = Liverpool Echo|page = 8}}</ref> as it primarily served the [[passenger liners]] which frequently docked nearby.<ref name=":1">{{cite news |url= http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/dockers-umbrella-city-railway-served-3489532 |title= The Dockers' Umbrella: City railway served Liverpool's busy port |date= 23 April 2008 |access-date= 2 August 2015 |work= Liverpool Echo}}</ref> Only the northbound platform was directly accessible from the street.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Lost Lines: Liverpool and the Mersey|last = Welbourn|first = Nigel|publisher = Ian Allan|year = 2008|isbn = 9780711031906|location = Hersham, Surrey|page = 27}}</ref>
The station was opened at 6am on the first day of operation without a formal ceremony. It was originally only open on week days, but service was intended to be extended to be extended to weekends.<ref name=":0" />
The station was damaged during the [[Liverpool Blitz]], requiring it to be rebuilt.<ref name=":1" />
The station closed, along with the rest of the line on 30 December 1956. No evidence of the station remains.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wright|first=Paul |title=Gladstone Dock|publisher=Disused Stations in the UK |date=2005-09-25 |url=http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/g/gladstone_dock_lor/index.shtml
|access-date=2008-05-18}}</ref>
==References==
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{{Disused rail start}}
{{Rail line |next=[[Seaforth Sands railway station|Seaforth Sands]]|previous=[[Alexandra Dock (LOR) railway station|Alexandra Dock]]|route=[[Liverpool Overhead Railway]] |col={{LOR colour}} }}
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{{Closed stations Merseyside}}
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[[Category:Disused railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton]]
[[Category:Former Liverpool Overhead Railway stations]]
[[Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1930]]
[[Category:Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1956]]
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