Lea Green railway station

Lea Green National Rail
Location
Place Sutton, Merseyside
Local authority St Helens
Grid reference SJ519924
Operations
Station code LEG
Managed by Northern
Number of platforms 2
DfT category E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 0.476 million
2013/14 Decrease 0.382 million
2014/15 Increase 0.394 million
2015/16 Increase 0.439 million
2016/17 Increase 0.446 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE Merseytravel
Zone A1
History
2000 Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lea Green from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Lea Green railway station is in St Helens, Merseyside, England, three miles south of the town centre near the suburb of Clock Face. The station is on the electrified northern route of the two direct Liverpool to Manchester lines, the former Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 10 3⁄4 miles (17 km) east of Liverpool Lime Street. Northern operates the station with Merseytravel sponsorship displaying Merseyrail signs. Constructed in 2000, the station has a park and ride car park which has been fitted with re-charging points for electrically powered road vehicles, a modern CCTV security system and a small booking office at street level.

An earlier Lea Green station closed decades earlier, a few hundred metres away. Thatto Heath railway station on the Liverpool to Wigan Line is approximately two miles to the north west.

Facilities

The ticket office is manned each day from 06:00 to midnight (except Sundays, when it opens at 08:30). Shelters are provided on each platform, along with help points, digital information screens and timetable poster boards. Both platforms have step-free access from the ticket office and station entrance via ramps.[1]

Services

Northern operates trains (every 30 minutes Monday-Saturday daytime) to Liverpool Lime Street. In the other direction, these trains run to Earlestown, from where one train per hour continues to Crewe via Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport and the other to Warrington Bank Quay. [2] Northern services to Manchester Victoria now only run during the weekday peaks and early morning/late evening (though they now also run a single train each day to and from Wigan North Western via Earlestown).

Sunday services see just 1 train per hour to Liverpool Lime Street and Wilmslow via Manchester Airport. Following completion of electrification of the line in Spring 2015, the Liverpool to Manchester Airport, Liverpool to Manchester Victoria and Liverpool to Warrington Bank Quay services are now operated by 4-Car Class 319 Electric Units.

As of the May 2018 timetable change, TransPennine Express began to call with direct services to Leeds/York/Scarborough every hour.[3]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Rainhill   Northern
Liverpool to Manchester Line		   St Helens Junction
Liverpool Lime Street   TransPennine Express
North TransPennine		   Manchester Victoria

References

  1. ↑ Lea Green station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 22 December 2016
  2. ↑ Table 90 National Rail timetable, May 2018
  3. ↑ "May 2018 Timetable Changes | Travel Updates | TransPennine Express". www.tpexpress.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-12.


Coordinates: 53°25′37″N 2°43′26″W / 53.427°N 2.724°W / 53.427; -2.724

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