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Riverside Station. The first passenger train used Riverside station on 12 June 1895, an LNWR train from Stafford to Liverpool Riverside including through coaches that had travelled to Stafford from London Euston, attached to another train. The train was run to connect with the sailing of the White Star company liner ‘Germanic’.
After the America entered the Second World war a number of its troops were brought in through Liverpool via Riverside station. During the war over 4,600 special trains ran to and from the station and 1,7 million soldiers passed through it.
The last train to depart from Riverside was a troop train returning soldiers from a tour of duty in Northern Ireland leaving Liverpool Riverside on 25 February 1971. The station was finally demolished in 1990. '
