connections were built with the liverpool overhead railway (lor) at to a new station beside lor's seaforth sands station and from the north mersey branch route to aintree. from 2 july 1905 lor trains began to run through to seaforth & litherland. in 1906 the l&yr electrified the line to . the l&yr built special lightweight emus and from 1906 began running services over the lor from dingle to and aintree. regular services to aintree were withdrawn in 1908, and after this special trains ran only twice a year, on jump sunday and the following friday for the grand national at aintree racecourse. through services from dingle to southport were withdrawn in 1914, passengers changing at seaforth & litherland. the trains were used on local services to southport until 1945.