Ainsdale railway station

Ainsdale
Location
Place	Ainsdale
Local authority	Sefton
Coordinates	53°36′07″N 3°02′34″W / 53.6019°N 3.0428°WCoordinates: 53°36′07″N 3°02′34″W / 53.6019°N 3.0428°W
Grid reference	SD311122
Operations
Station code	ANS
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*
2010/11	0.973 million
2011/12	0.961 million
2012/13	0.899 million
2013/14	0.957 million
2014/15	0.984 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	D1
History
Key dates	Opened 24 July 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 Ainsdale from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Ainsdale railway station serves the village of Ainsdale near Southport, England. The station is located on the Southport branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line.

History

Ainsdale railway station opened in 1848 as an intermediate station on the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway. On 14 June 1855.^[1] It became part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR), which 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 privatised in 1995).

In August 2009, electronic real-time passenger information screens were installed at a cost of £50,000, one located in the ticket office, one in the waiting room on the Southport bound platform and one on the entrance of the Hunts Cross Platform. There are no real-time passenger information screens on the platforms itself however, unlike other Merseyrail stations. The station itself has benefited from £100,000 of improvements, both platforms have had their waiting shelters refurbished, with automatic doors added, as well as lighting, heating, CCTV, floor tiles and new seating.

A New toilet building located on the Southport-bound platform was completed in May 2007.^[2] Access is by request at the ticket office.

New secure cycle storage facilities were installed inside two former toilet blocks (closed in the late 1980's) at the station in July 2010. there is one located near each platform by the waiting rooms.

In early June 2014 it was announced that the station would be among a small number of stations across the Merseyrail network that would undergo a £3.7m programme of improvements. The improvement plans for the station were revealed at a public meeting at the village church on 20 July 2015, and it includes new waiting rooms and a new ticket office, as well as better access to the platforms and car park.^[3] Work on the scheme is due to start in late 2016 and be completed in summer 2017.^[4]

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 footbridge and level crossing.

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  The northbound platform.

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  A Merseyrail class 507 waits at the station, viewed from the footbridge.

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  A broad view of the platforms and footbridge.

References

1. Awdry, p. 88
2. Ainsdale Station Toilet
3. Ainsdale Station Improvements
4. "Merseytravel approves its contribution to Ainsdale Station re-build". Merseytravel. Retrieved 31 Aug 2016.

• 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. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

• Station information for Ainsdale railway station from Merseyrail