Huyton railway station

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Huyton

Northern Rail Class 150 heading to Liverpool in 2014
Location
Place	Huyton
Local authority	Knowsley
Grid reference	SJ440906
Operations
Station code	HUY
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.393 million
2005/06	0.430 million
2006/07	0.426 million
2007/08	0.427 million
2008/09	1.189 million
2009/10	1.150 million
2010/11	1.235 million
2011/12	1.234 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	C1/A3/C2/C3
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Huyton from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Huyton railway station serves the area of Huyton in Merseyside, England. The station acts as an interchange between the Liverpool-Wigan Line and the northern route of the Liverpool-Manchester Line which diverge soon after the station. It is one of the busier stations on these lines. The station is close to the shopping centre and bus station.

2010 modernisation

Almost £1 million was spent in modernising the station in 2010. The works include a new canopy on Platform 1, a new waiting shelter on Platform 2 and a new disability compliant toilet was also installed. Improvements also included updating the subway which provided better lighting, state-of-the-art CCTV and new seating areas.^[1]

Future

Originally Huyton station had four platforms, but the two platforms on the northern side of the station (Platforms 3 and 4) were closed in the 1970s, and the track was lifted. As part of the electrification of the Liverpool-Manchester Line, Platform 3 will be brought back into use in time for the December 2014 timetable change, and Platform 4 will be re-instated later.^[2] This work will also see the station signal box closed & demolished as part of the associated resignalling scheme - this currently controls the line between Roby and Rainhill (Earlestown line)/Prescot (Wigan line) though the last few semaphore signals it formerly controlled were removed in September 2012.

Services

There are 10 trains per hour passing through the station.

1tph to Warrington Bank Quay calling at:

Whiston, Rainhill, Lea Green, St Helens Junction, Earlestown and Warrington Bank Quay

2tph to Wigan North Western calling at:

Prescot, Eccleston Park, Thatto Heath, St Helens Central, Garswood, Bryn and Wigan North Western

1tph to Stalybridge calling at:

Whiston, Rainhill, Lea Green, St Helens Junction, Earlestown, Newton-le-Willows, Patricroft, Eccles, Manchester Victoria, Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge

During the evening this service runs to Victoria only. At peak times, it continues to Huddersfield.

1tph to Blackpool North calling at:

St Helens Central, Wigan North Western, Euxton Balshaw Lane, Leyland, Preston and Blackpool North

5tph to Liverpool Lime Street calling at:

Roby (4tph), Broad Green (4tph), Wavertree Tech Park (4tph), Edge Hill (4tph) and Liverpool Lime Street

1tph runs non-stop from Huyton to Lime St.

Gallery

The station building, viewed from the road.
The station building, viewed from the platform.
A First TransPennine Class 185 passes the signal box.
The station signal box, behind which is engineering work to reinstate track.

References

↑ Bartlett, David (2009-12-01). "Revamp for Huyton train station". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
↑ "Roby and Huyton Station Upgrade". Merseytravel. Retrieved 2013-06-12.

External links

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Train times and station information for Huyton railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		Following station
Liverpool Lime Street	Northern Rail Liverpool-Preston/Blackpool	St Helens Central
Roby	Northern Rail Liverpool-Wigan Line	Prescot
Roby	Northern Rail Liverpool-Manchester line	Whiston

v t e Merseyrail City Line Stations

Wigan	Liverpool Lime Street Edge Hill Wavertree Technology Park Broad Green Roby Huyton Prescot Eccleston Park Thatto Heath St Helens Central Garswood

Newton-le-Willows	Liverpool Lime Street Edge Hill Wavertree Technology Park Broad Green Roby Huyton Whiston Rainhill Lea Green St Helens Junction Earlestown Newton-le-Willows

Warrington	Liverpool Lime Street Edge Hill Mossley Hill West Allerton Liverpool South Parkway Hunts Cross Halewood Hough Green

v t e Railway stations in Merseyside

Knowsley	Halewood Huyton Kirkby Prescot Roby Whiston

Liverpool (city centre stations in italics)	Aigburth Bank Hall Broad Green Brunswick Cressington Edge Hill Fazakerley Hunts Cross James Street Kirkdale Liverpool Central Liverpool Lime Street Liverpool South Parkway Moorfields Mossley Hill Orrell Park Rice Lane St Michaels Sandhills Walton Wavertree Technology Park West Allerton

Sefton	Ainsdale Aintree Birkdale Blundellsands & Crosby Bootle New Strand Bootle Oriel Road Formby Freshfield Hall Road Hightown Hillside Maghull Meols Cop Old Roan Seaforth & Litherland Southport Waterloo

St Helens	Earlestown Eccleston Park Garswood Lea Green Newton-le-Willows Rainford Rainhill St Helens Central St Helens Junction Thatto Heath

Wirral	Bebington Beechwood (proposed) Bidston Birkenhead Central Birkenhead North Birkenhead Park Bromborough Bromborough Rake Conway Park Eastham Rake Green Lane Hamilton Square Heswall Hoylake Leasowe Manor Road Meols Moreton New Brighton Port Sunlight Rock Ferry Spital Upton Wallasey Grove Road Wallasey Village West Kirby Woodchurch (proposed)

Outside Merseyside, but within the Merseytravel area	Hooton Hough Green

Transport in Merseyside Merseytravel Merseyrail

Coordinates: 53°24′36″N 2°50′35″W / 53.410°N 2.843°W / 53.410; -2.843

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