Stanlow and Thornton railway station

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Stanlow and Thornton

Platform 1 on the right. This is a view from the footbridge, facing towards Helsby.

Location

Place

Stanlow

Local authority

Ellesmere Port and Neston

Operations

Station code

SNT

Managed by

Northern Rail

Platforms in use

1 (Helsby) 2 (Ellesmere Port)

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

2005/06 *

130

History

Key dates

Opened during construction of refinery

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Stanlow and Thornton from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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The unstaffed rail station at Stanlow & Thornton is located within the Stanlow Shell oil refinery in Cheshire, England.

It lies on Northern Rail's line between Ellesmere Port and Helsby. The station is surrounded by the refinery site, so as a result most station users are refinery employees.^[1]

There is no ticket office, so passengers buy tickets from a conductor on board the train.^[2] Station usage statistics for 2004-5 showed 40 passengers using the station, less than one per week.^[3]

1 Services
2 Public Transport Interchange
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Services

Four trains a day call here in each direction (towards Helsby and Ellesmere Port). One of these trains each evening continues to Liverpool Lime Street via Warrington Bank Quay.

There is no service on Sundays. A Saturday service operates on most Bank Holidays.

In British Rail terminology, this station's rail service(s) would be referred to as a Parliamentary train. This means that the Train Operating Company only runs the minimum number of services required legally, and usually at the least busy times of day, in order to still comply with the law, but to keep operating costs down to an absolute minimum.

[edit] Public Transport Interchange

There is no public exit from the station. The railway station is located within the oil refinery, therefore no opportunities exist for a public transport interchange.