Aughton Park railway station

Aughton Park
Location
Place	Aughton
Local authority	West Lancashire
Coordinates	53°33′15″N 2°53′43″W / 53.5542°N 2.8953°WCoordinates: 53°33′15″N 2°53′43″W / 53.5542°N 2.8953°W
Grid reference	SD408067
Operations
Station code	AUG
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	96,224
2011/12	78,504
2012/13	78,136
2013/14	0.180 million
2014/15	0.183 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	F
History
May 1907	Station opens as Aughton Park Halt
By 1938	Renamed Aughton Park
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Aughton Park from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Aughton Park railway station is a railway station in Aughton, Lancashire, England, on the Ormskirk branch of the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network 11½ miles (19 km) north east of Liverpool Central.

History

Opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Regional Railways on behalf of the Merseyside PTE until the privatisation of British Railways.

Services

Trains operate every 15 minutes (Monday to Saturday daytime) between Ormskirk and Liverpool Central, and every 30 minutes at other times.

Gallery

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  The station during the summer.

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  The station bridge, viewed from the opposite platform.

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  A Merseyrail Class 507 waits at the station.

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  The end of the platform.

References

• 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

• Train times and station information for Aughton Park railway station from National Rail

• Station information for Aughton Park railway station from Merseyrail