Formby railway station

Formby

Location
Place	Formby
Local authority	Sefton
Coordinates	53°33′13″N 3°04′15″W / 53.5535°N 3.0708°W / 53.5535; -3.0708Coordinates: 53°33′13″N 3°04′15″W / 53.5535°N 3.0708°W / 53.5535; -3.0708
Grid reference	SD291068
Operations
Station code	FBY
Managed by	Merseyrail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.425 million
2005/06	0.482 million
2006/07	0.526 million
2007/08	0.553 million
2008/09	1.668 million
2009/10	1.577 million
2010/11	1.596 million
2011/12	1.514 million
2012/13	1.402 million
2013/14	1.283 million
2014/15	1.312 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	D2
History
Key dates	Opened 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 Formby from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Formby railway station is a railway station in the town of Formby, Merseyside, England. The station is located on the Southport branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line. The station has a car park.

History

Formby opened in 1848 as an intermediate station on the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway. It became part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR), On 14 June 1855.^[1] who took over from the (LCSR). The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922 and in turn was Grouped into 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).

Formby is mentioned in the song Slow Train by Flanders and Swann. This is because the Beeching Report listed Formby as a station to be closed, along with the entire Liverpool to Southport route.

The ticket hall and the stairs to the platforms were refurbished with new flooring, lighting and windows being fitted.

In March 2015 a jointly funded £1.6 million scheme to install two new passenger lifts to improve platform access began - with one lift serving each platform.^[2] The installation of the lifts was completed in September 2015.^[3]

Services

Trains operate every 15 minutes throughout the day from Monday to Saturday and on summer Sundays to Southport to the north, and to Hunts Cross via Liverpool Central to the south. Winter Sunday services are every 30 minutes in each direction.

Gallery

The ticket office at Formby.
The station frontage, on the main road.
A Merseyrail Class 507 waits at the station.
A building on the Southport-bound platform.

References

↑ Awdry, p. 88
↑ "New lifts for Formby station". Merseytravel. Merseytravel. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
↑ "New Lifts at Formby Station". Merseyrail. Merseyrail. Retrieved 28 September 2015.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Formby railway station.

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

Station information for Formby railway station from Merseyrail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Freshfield towards Southport		Merseyrail Northern Line		Hightown towards Hunts Cross

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

Merseyrail Northern Line Stations

Southport–Hunts Cross Branch	Hunts Cross Liverpool South Parkway Cressington Aigburth St Michaels Brunswick (St James – proposed) Liverpool Central Moorfields Sandhills Bank Hall Bootle Oriel Road Bootle New Strand Seaforth & Litherland Waterloo Blundellsands & Crosby Hall Road Hightown Formby Freshfield Ainsdale Hillside Birkdale Southport

Ormskirk Branch	Liverpool Central Moorfields Sandhills Kirkdale Walton Orrell Park Aintree Old Roan Maghull Town Green Aughton Park Ormskirk

Kirkby Branch	Liverpool Central Moorfields Sandhills Kirkdale Rice Lane Fazakerley Kirkby (Headbolt Lane – proposed)

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