Town Green railway station

Town Green National Rail
Location
Place Aughton
Local authority West Lancashire
Coordinates 53°32′35″N 2°54′16″W / 53.5430°N 2.9044°W / 53.5430; -2.9044Coordinates: 53°32′35″N 2°54′16″W / 53.5430°N 2.9044°W / 53.5430; -2.9044
Grid reference SD401055
Operations
Station code TWN
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  0.183 million
2005/06 Increase 0.203 million
2006/07 Decrease 0.202 million
2007/08 Increase 0.206 million
2008/09 Increase 0.260 million
2009/10 Decrease 0.239 million
2010/11 Decrease 0.193 million
2011/12 Decrease 0.149 million
2012/13 Decrease 0.142 million
2013/14 Increase 0.337 million
2014/15 Increase 0.347 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE Merseytravel
Zone F
History
Original company Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway
Pre-grouping Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping London Midland and Scottish Railway
2 April 1849 Opened as Town Green[1]
1 June 1889 Renamed Town Green and Aughton[1]
5 May 1975 Renamed Town Green[1]
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Town Green from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Town Green railway station is a railway station in Town Green, Aughton, Lancashire, England, situated on the Ormskirk branch of Merseyrail's Northern Line.

Location

It is located at the junction of Town Green Lane and Middlewood Road with pedestrian and vehicular access from Middlewood Road. The booking hall opens onto the south bound platform and the Aughton police station now occupies rooms opening off the booking hall. To the Liverpool end of Town Green station on the Ormskirk bound side and behind the signal box there used to be a small loop line with a very low white painted station which was the platform used by Royal trains when the Royal family were visiting Knowsley Hall - the home of Lord Derby or attending the Grand National race meeting at Aintree.

The signal box (erected by British Railways in 1949 to replace an earlier Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway structure dating from 1875) was closed & demolished when the line was resignalled in February 1994 - from October 1970 until to its demise, it remotely operated the points & signalling at Ormskirk as well as at this station.[2]

Services

Trains operate every 15 minutes (Monday to Saturday daytime) between Ormskirk and Liverpool Central, and every 30 minutes in the evening & all day Sunday.[3]

Gallery

References

  1. 1 2 3 Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 233. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
  2. "Town Green Signal Box"Line Clear - Signal Boxes in the North West; Retrieved 30 March 2016
  3. GB eNRT 2015-16 Edition, Table 105 (Network Rail)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Town Green railway station.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Aughton Park
towards Ormskirk
  Merseyrail
Northern Line
  Maghull
towards Liverpool Central


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