Hightown railway station

Hightown
Location
Place	Hightown
Local authority	Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
Coordinates	53°31′30″N 3°03′25″W / 53.525°N 3.057°W / 53.525; -3.057Coordinates: 53°31′30″N 3°03′25″W / 53.525°N 3.057°W / 53.525; -3.057
Grid reference	SD300036
Operations
Station code	HTO
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*
2011/12	0.409 million
2012/13	0.381 million
2013/14	0.312 million
2014/15	0.317 million
2015/16	0.314 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 Hightown from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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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.

History

Hightown 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).

Facilities

The station is staffed, 15 minutes before the first train and 15 minutes after the last train, and has platform CCTV. Both of the two platforms have waiting rooms. There is a payphone, booking office and live departure and arrival screens, for passenger information. There is secure indoor storage for 54 cycles. The platforms are linked via a stepped bridge but both may be accessed via the road.^[2]

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

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

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hightown railway station.

• Train times and station information for Hightown railway station from National Rail

• Station information for Hightown railway station from Merseyrail

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