Bootle New Strand railway station

Bootle New Strand
Location
Place	Bootle
Local authority	Sefton
Coordinates	53°27′12″N 2°59′41″W / 53.4534°N 2.9946°WCoordinates: 53°27′12″N 2°59′41″W / 53.4534°N 2.9946°W
Grid reference	SJ340956
Operations
Station code	BNW
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	0.931 million
– Interchange	67
2011/12	0.912 million
– Interchange	3
2012/13	0.843 million
– Interchange	2,608
2013/14	0.953 million
– Interchange	326
2014/15	0.975 million
– Interchange	3,119
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	C3
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bootle New Strand from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Bootle New Strand railway station is a railway station in the centre of Bootle, Merseyside, England. It is on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network and serves in particular the nearby New Strand Shopping Centre. The platforms are elevated and are reached by ramps from the entrance at street level. Connecting bus services leave from the nearby bus station in the basement of New Strand Shopping Centre.

History

Bootle New Strand 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. Originally it was named Marsh Lane & Strand Road, until some time during the 1960s when the nearby New Strand Shopping Centre was built. The LC&SR 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).

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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  Looking north along the Liverpool-bound platform.

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  The northern end of the station.

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  The main entrance to the station.

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  A Merseyrail Class 507 departs towards Liverpool.

References

1. Awdry, p. 88

External links

• Train times and station information for Bootle New Strand railway station from National Rail

• Station information for Bootle New Strand railway station from Merseyrail