Manor Road railway station

Manor Road
Platforms and footbridge.
Location
Place	Hoylake
Local authority	Wirral
Grid reference	SJ222893
Operations
Station code	MNR
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	0.113 million
2005/06	0.117 million
2006/07	0.119 million
2007/08	0.124 million
2008/09	0.356 million
2009/10	0.340 million
2010/11	0.358 million
2011/12	0.361 million
2012/13	0.338 million
2013/14	0.267 million
2014/15	0.271 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	B2
History
1940	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 Manor Road from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Manor Road railway station is situated between Hoylake and Meols on the Wirral Peninsula, England. It lies on the West Kirby branch of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network.

History

Proposed by 1936,^[1] the station was opened on 15 May 1940^[2] by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, following their 1938 electrification of the former Wirral Railway's route from Birkenhead to West Kirby and the start of through trains to Liverpool.

Facilities

The station is staffed, during all opening hours, and has platform CCTV.^[3] Each of the two platforms has a seated waiting shelter. There is a payphone, booking office and live departure and arrival screens, for passenger information. The station doesn't have car park, but does have a 2-space cycle rack.^[4] There is step-free access available only for the Liverpool-bound platform, for wheelchairs and prams. As yet, platform access has not been modernised to the standard of that at Hooton.

Services

Current services are every 15 minutes (Monday to Saturday daytime) to West Kirby and Liverpool. At other times, trains operate every 30 minutes.^[5] These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.

Gallery

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  On the Liverpool-bound platform, looking towards Meols.

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  A view in the direction of West Kirby.

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  A Merseyrail Class 507 on the West Kirby-bound platform.

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  The waiting shelter on the West Kirby-bound platform.

References

1. Lee, Charles E. (September 1936). "The Mersey Railway". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 79 no. 471. p. 158.
2. Maund 2009, pp. 176-177
3. "Station Facilities for Manor Road". National Rail. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
4. "Manor Road train station facilities". Merseyrail. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
5. "Wirral Line timetable" (PDF). Merseyrail. Retrieved 18 December 2013.

Sources

• Maund, T.B. (2009). The Wirral Railway and its Predecessors. Lydney: Lightmoor Press. pp. 176–177. ISBN 978-1-899889-38-9.

External links

• Train times and station information for Manor Road railway station from National Rail

• Station information for Manor Road railway station from Merseyrail

Coordinates: 53°23′42″N 3°10′16″W / 53.395°N 3.171°W