Liverpool station group

Northern Rail 142011 at Lime Street platform 5

The Liverpool station group is a station group of four railway stations in Liverpool City Centre, England consisting of Lime Street, Central, James Street and Moorfields. The station group is printed on national rail tickets as Liverpool Stns and does not include the station of Liverpool South Parkway.,^[1] which is located south of the city centre in Garston near Liverpool's Airport.

Stations

Liverpool Lime Street is Liverpool's principal railway station and is located, as the name denotes, on Lime Street opposite St Georges Hall. As Liverpool's main station, it is served by all of Liverpool's longer distance services and many local services; including Merseyrail's City and Wirral (via the lower level platform) lines. The station is managed by Network Rail and services are provided by London Midland, East Midlands Trains, Northern Rail, Merseyrail, Virgin Trains and First TransPennine Express

Liverpool Central station is located on Hanover Street inside the Central Shopping Centre and provides links between the Wirral and Northern lines of the Merseyrail Network.

Liverpool James Street is, as its name denotes, on James Street near the corner of The Strand; it is served by the Wirral Line only. James Street is also the closest station to the Waterfront area and Mathew Street (of the Cavern Club fame).

James Street station's main entrance

Moorfields station is located on Moorfields just off Dale Street in the north of the City Centre and provides links between the Wirral and Northern lines of the Merseyrail Network.

Connections

Merseyrail Network

Tickets marked as LIVERPOOL STNS may be used to exit the railway network at any of the four city stations. All station are connected by the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail Network. The city centre loop of the Wirral Line operates in a clockwise direction (James St, Moorfields, Lime Street, Central and back to James Street), passengers changing between the Wirral to the Northern Line's may use either Moorfields or Central depending upon direction of travel.

References

External links

Station information for Liverpool Lime Street from Network Rail
Station information for Liverpool Lime Street (lower level) from Merseyrail
Station information for Liverpool Moorfields from Merseyrail
Station information for Liverpool Central from Merseyrail
Station information for Liverpool James Street from Merseyrail

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

Merseyrail Wirral Line Stations

New Brighton Branch:	New Brighton Wallasey Grove Road Wallasey Village

West Kirby Branch:	West Kirby Hoylake Manor Road Meols Moreton Leasowe Bidston

Northern Branch:	Birkenhead North Birkenhead Park Conway Park

Liverpool Loop:	Hamilton Square James Street Moorfields Liverpool Lime Street Liverpool Central

Southern Branch:	Birkenhead Central Green Lane Rock Ferry Bebington Port Sunlight Spital Bromborough Rake Bromborough Eastham Rake Hooton

Chester Branch:	Capenhurst Bache Chester

Ellesmere Port Branch:	Little Sutton Overpool Ellesmere Port

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)

Major railway stations in Great Britain

Managed by Network Rail	Birmingham New Street Bristol Temple Meads Edinburgh Waverley Glasgow Central Leeds Liverpool Lime Street Manchester Piccadilly Newcastle Reading York

Managed by train operator	Aberdeen Ayr Birmingham Moor Street Birmingham Snow Hill Bradford Brighton Cardiff Central Cardiff Queen Street Chester Crewe Derby Doncaster Dundee Gatwick Airport Glasgow Queen Street Haymarket Huddersfield Hull Inverness Leicester Manchester Oxford Road Manchester Victoria Motherwell Nottingham Paisley Gilmour Street Perth Portsmouth Harbour Preston Sheffield Southampton Central Stoke-on-Trent Stirling Swansea Wolverhampton

London

Managed by Network Rail (termini)

Managed by train operator

Termini	Fenchurch Street Marylebone Moorgate

Through stations	Blackfriars City Thameslink Clapham Junction Stratford Waterloo East

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

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