Capenhurst railway station

Capenhurst railway station serves the village of Capenhurst and its substantial industrial facilities, in Cheshire, England. It also serves outer suburbs of Ellesmere Port. On the former GWR main line from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside it is now on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network, 5 1⁄4 miles (8.4 km) north of Chester.

Capenhurst
Location
PlaceCapenhurst
Local authorityCheshire West and Chester
Coordinates53.260°N 2.942°W / 53.260; -2.942
Grid referenceSJ372740
Operations
Station codeCPU
Managed byMerseyrail
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.210 million
2015/16 0.221 million
2016/17 0.221 million
2017/18 0.185 million
2018/19 0.180 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTEMerseytravel
ZoneG1/G2
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Capenhurst from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Facilities

The station has platform CCTV, a 24-space car park and a cycle rack with 10 spaces as well as secure cycle storage for 20 cycles.[1] Each platform has a waiting shelter with seating. There are departure and arrival screens, on the platform, for passenger information. There is access, to each platform, for passengers with wheelchairs or prams. However, cross-platform access, within the station, is by staircase only.

Capenhurst is one of four stations on the Merseyrail network that is unstaffed, the others being Bache, Little Sutton and Overpool. Passengers must purchase tickets from the Ticket Vending Machine located on the Chester-bound platform; the machine can issue tickets to any destination on the rail network. Passengers failing to purchase a ticket will be liable for a Penalty Fare if they board a Merseyrail service without obtaining a valid ticket. This station became part of the Merseyrail Penalty Fares Area on 15 June 2009.

Services

Trains between Chester and Liverpool call at Capenhurst every 30 minutes every day (including Sunday). The quarter-hourly service on the Chester line does not benefit Capenhurst since alternate trains run through the station non-stop between Hooton and Bache in each direction.[2] These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.

  • The foot and road bridges.
  • The ticket machine and information boards.
  • A Merseyrail Class 508 departs for Chester.
  • The main entrance.

References
  1. Capenhurst train station facilities, Merseyrail Accessed 2017-02-08
  2. "Wirral Line timetable" (PDF). Merseyrail. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2012). Chester to Birkenhead. Middleton Press. figs. 20-26. ISBN 9781908174215. OCLC 811323335.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Bache
towards Chester		   Merseyrail
Wirral Line
Chester Branch		   Hooton
towards Liverpool Central
  Historical railways  
Mollington
Line open, station closed		   GWR & LNWR
Chester and Birkenhead Railway		   Ledsham
Line open, station closed
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