Bank Hall railway station

Bank Hall
The booking office and platforms.
Location
Place	Kirkdale
Local authority	Liverpool
Coordinates	53°26′15″N 2°59′15″W / 53.4376°N 2.9875°WCoordinates: 53°26′15″N 2°59′15″W / 53.4376°N 2.9875°W
Grid reference	SJ344939
Operations
Station code	BAH
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	0.172 million
2011/12	0.175 million
2012/13	0.160 million
2013/14	0.161 million
2014/15	0.159 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	C1
History
1850	Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bank Hall from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Bank Hall railway station is a railway station in Kirkdale, Liverpool, England, located to the north of the city centre, on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. As the area around the station is made up of largely closed industrial buildings, the station is one of the quietest on the Northern Line.

History

Bank Hall opened in 1850 as an intermediate station when the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway was extended from its previous terminal at Waterloo to Liverpool Exchange. It became part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR), on 14 June 1855.^[1] 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).

The station in 1962

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. Alternate trains terminate at Liverpool Central southbound on Sundays in summer. Winter Sunday services are every 30 minutes in each direction.^[2]

Gallery

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  A resplendent Stanier Class 5 at Bank Hall Shed in 1948.

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  A Class 508 arrives with a service into Liverpool.

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  A view from the steps.

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  A view of the station, from the street.

References

1. Awdry, p. 88
2. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 103

External links

• Train times and station information for Bank Hall railway station from National Rail

• Station information for Bank Hall railway station from Merseyrail