Hightown railway station

Hightown railway station serves the village of Hightown in Merseyside, England. The station is located on the Southport branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line.

Hightown
Location
PlaceHightown
Local authorityMetropolitan Borough of Sefton
Coordinates53.525°N 3.057°W / 53.525; -3.057
Grid referenceSD300036
Operations
Station codeHTO
Managed byMerseyrail
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.317 million
2015/16 0.314 million
2016/17 0.308 million
2017/18 0.311 million
2018/19 0.353 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTEMerseytravel
ZoneD2
History
Key datesOpened 1848 (1848)
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hightown from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

Hightown opened in 1848 as an intermediate station on the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway (LCSR).

It became part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR), on 14 June 1855,[1] which had absorbed the LCSR. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922 and in turn amalgamated with other railways to create the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.

Nationalisation followed in 1948 and in 1978 the station became part of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line (operated by British Rail until privatisation in 1995).

In February 2019, as part of the Merseyrail platform upgrade works, both of the platforms were raised in preparation for the British Rail Class 777 METRO units, coming into operation in 2020.

The station is staffed, from 15 minutes before the first train until 15 minutes after the last train.

Platform 1 (Southbound) has a waiting room, ticket office, cycle storage and a photo booth, whilst Platform 2 (Northbound) has a shelter, a payphone and cycle storage. There are live dot-matrix departure screens, for passenger information and platform CCTV on both platforms. The platforms are linked via a stepped bridge but both may be accessed via road.[2]

Services

Northbound trains operate to Southport, and Southbound trains to Hunts Cross via Liverpool Central.

On Mondays to Saturdays there are four trains an hour throughout the day in each direction; on Sundays there are two per hour.

  • The station booking office.
  • The Alt Road footbridge.
  • The waiting shelter on the Southport-bound platform.
  • Merseyrail Class 508s pass at the station.

References
  1. Awdry 1990, p. 88
  2. "Hightown train station". www.merseyrail.org. Retrieved 15 February 2017.

Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Formby
towards Southport		   Merseyrail
Northern Line		   Hall Road
towards Hunts Cross
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