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Hooton railway station
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Hooton | |||
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| Location | |||
| Place | Hooton | ||
| Local authority | Ellesmere Port and Neston | ||
| Operations | |||
| Managed by | Merseyrail | ||
| Platforms in use | 2 | ||
| Annual Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 ** | 0.349 million | ||
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| PTE | Merseytravel | ||
| Zone | B | ||
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |||
| Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hooton (source) | |||
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Hooton railway station is situated in south Wirral. It lies on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network, and is near the junction of the branches to Chester and Ellesmere Port.
Although the station is over the county boundary in Cheshire, tickets issued by Merseytravel (which usually can only be used in Merseyside) are valid for travel to and from Hooton.
The station provides a park and ride facility for Birkenhead and Liverpool, being situated close to Junction 5 of the M53 motorway. The station car park was remarked in early 2007 and now contains compliant blue badge parking spaces. Further work, to provide a variable height counter and new cycle parking, is due to be completed by the end of March and a new 'M to Go' shop is expected to open later on in 2007.
Hooton station is located on the former Chester and Birkenhead Railway, a joint railway owned by the Great Western Railway and the London and North Western Railway, which opened in 1838. A branch from Hooton to Helsby opened in 1863, and another branch to Parkgate (later extended to West Kirby) followed in 1866. The West Kirby branch closed in 1962.
Through services to Liverpool began in 1985, when the line between Rock Ferry and Hooton was electrified; previously passengers for Liverpool had to change at Rock Ferry. Hooton then became the point where passengers from Chester and Ellesmere Port had to change for Liverpool, until further electrification work saw the electric trains reach Chester in 1993 and Ellesmere Port in 1994.
Trains operate every 30 minutes (15 minutes in weekday evenings) to each of Chester and Ellesmere Port and every 15 minutes via Hamilton Square station in Birkenhead and the Mersey Railway Tunnel to Liverpool. During peak periods on weekday mornings, trains also run up to every 7 minutes to Liverpool.
- Train times and station information for Hooton railway station from National Rail
- Map and aerial photo of Hooton railway station from Multimap.com
- Station information from Merseyrail
| Previous station | Merseyrail | Next station | ||
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toward Chester
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Wirral Line
Chester Branch
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toward Liverpool Central
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toward Ellesmere Port
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Wirral Line
Ellesmere Port Branch
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| Disused Railways | ||||
| Hadlow Road | Wirral Railway Wirral Way |
Bromborough | ||
| Merseyrail Wirral Line Stations | |
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| New Brighton Branch: | New Brighton Wallasey Grove Road Wallasey Village |
| West Kirby Branch: | West Kirby Hoylake Manor Road Meols Moreton Leasowe Bidston |
| Northern Branch: | Birkenhead North Birkenhead Park Conway Park |
| Liverpool Loop: | Hamilton Square James Street Moorfields Liverpool Lime Street Liverpool Central |
| Southern Branch: | Birkenhead Central Green Lane Rock Ferry Bebington Port Sunlight Spital Bromborough Rake Bromborough Eastham Rake Hooton |
| Chester Branch: | Capenhurst Bache Chester |
| Ellesmere Port Branch: | Little Sutton Overpool Ellesmere Port |