Town Green railway station

Town Green
Location
Place	Aughton
Local authority	West Lancashire
Coordinates	53°32′35″N 2°54′16″W / 53.5430°N 2.9044°WCoordinates: 53°32′35″N 2°54′16″W / 53.5430°N 2.9044°W
Grid reference	SD401055
Operations
Station code	TWN
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	0.183 million
2005/06	0.203 million
2006/07	0.202 million
2007/08	0.206 million
2008/09	0.260 million
2009/10	0.239 million
2010/11	0.193 million
2011/12	0.149 million
2012/13	0.142 million
2013/14	0.337 million
2014/15	0.347 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	F
History
Original company	Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
2 April 1849	Opened as Town Green[1]
1 June 1889	Renamed Town Green and Aughton[1]
5 May 1975	Renamed Town Green[1]
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Town Green from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Town Green railway station is a railway station in Town Green, Aughton, Lancashire, England, situated on the Ormskirk branch of Merseyrail's Northern Line.

Location

It is located at the junction of Town Green Lane and Middlewood Road with pedestrian and vehicular access from Middlewood Road. The booking hall opens onto the south bound platform and the Aughton police station now occupies rooms opening off the booking hall. To the Liverpool end of Town Green station on the Ormskirk bound side and behind the signal box there used to be a small loop line with a very low white painted station which was the platform used by Royal trains when the Royal family were visiting Knowsley Hall - the home of Lord Derby or attending the Grand National race meeting at Aintree.

The signal box (erected by British Railways in 1949 to replace an earlier Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway structure dating from 1875) was closed & demolished when the line was resignalled in February 1994 - from October 1970 until to its demise, it remotely operated the points & signalling at Ormskirk as well as at this station.^[2]

Services

Trains operate every 15 minutes (Monday to Saturday daytime) between Ormskirk and Liverpool Central, and every 30 minutes in the evening & all day Sunday.^[3]

Gallery

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  A Merseyrail Class 507 waits at the Ormskirk-bound platform.

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  A Merseyrail Class 507 waits at the Liverpool-bound platform.

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  The station as viewed from the roadside drop-off point.

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  Aughton police station, on the Liverpool-bound platform.

References

1. 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. p. 233. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
2. "Town Green Signal Box"Line Clear - Signal Boxes in the North West; Retrieved 30 March 2016
3. GB eNRT 2015-16 Edition, Table 105 (Network Rail)

External links

• Train times and station information for Town Green railway station from National Rail

• Station information for Town Green railway station from Merseyrail