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General information | |||||
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Location | Formby, Sefton England | ||||
Grid reference | SD292068 | ||||
Managed by | Merseyrail | ||||
Transit authority | Merseytravel | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | ANS | ||||
Fare zone | D1 | ||||
Classification | DfT category E | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 24 July 1848 | ||||
Original company | Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway | ||||
Pre-grouping | Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway | ||||
Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 1.016 million | ||||
2019/20 | 1.128 million | ||||
2020/21 | 0.321 million | ||||
2021/22 | 0.768 million | ||||
2022/23 | 0.921 million | ||||
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Formby railway station is a railway station in the town of Formby, Merseyside, England. The station is located on the Southport branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line. The station has a car park.
History
Formby railway station opened as Formby and Altcaron 24 July 1848 when the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway (LC&SR) opened its line from Waterloo to Southport Eastbank Street.[1]
The station was situated on the north side of Kirklake Road which was crossed using a level crossing, shortly before the station the line became double with the formation of a long loop through the station so that trains could pass each other, the line reverted to single-track on leaving the station.[2]
The station had two platforms, one each side of the double-track, it was described as "cramped and inconvenient, ther being a station house, and a waiting room with an ungainly wooden awning on the up platform, and only a small timber waiting shed on the opposite side. An open-air footbridge connected the platforms whilst the main road passed over the railway via a level crossing".[3]
In 1850 the LC&SR had been authorised to lease, sell or transfer itself to the L&YR and on 14 June 1855 the L&YR purchased and took over the LC&SR.[4][5]
The station was renamed to Formby in 1866.[1]
By 1893 a goods yard opened to the south of Kirklake Road, on the coastal side of the line, it was two sidings forming a run-around loop with a headshunt, it was equipped with a three and a half ton crane.[6][7]
The station was rebuilt in 1913 getting waiting rooms on each platform, the booking office being on the road bridge. The level crossing was replaced with the road bridge sometime after 1904 when the line was electrified.[8][9]
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.[10]
The goods yard closed on 3 October 1960.[11]
Formby is mentioned in the song Slow Train by Flanders and Swann. This is because the Beeching Report listed Formby as a station to be closed, along with the entire Liverpool to Southport route.[12]
In 1978 the station became part of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line (operated by British Rail until privatised in 1995).[13]
Facilities
The station is staffed, 15 minutes before the first train and 15 minutes after the last train, and has platform CCTV. There is a payphone, ticket machines, booking office and live departure and arrival screens for passenger information. The station has a free car park, with 126 spaces, as well as an 8-space cycle rack and secure indoor storage for 40 cycles. The platforms are fully accessible for wheelchair users with lifts available.[14]
Services
Trains operate every 15 minutes throughout the day from Monday to Saturday to Southport to the north, and to Hunts Cross via Liverpool Central to the south. Sunday services are every 30 minutes in each direction.[15]
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Freshfield towards Southport |
Merseyrail Southport branch Northern Line |
Hightown towards Hunts Cross |
Gallery
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The footbridge and level crossing, before refurbishment.
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The northbound platform.
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A Merseyrail class 507 waits at the station, viewed from the footbridge.
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A broad view of the platforms and footbridge.
References
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Quick 2023, p. 197.
- ^ Lancashire Sheet XC (Map). Six-inch. Ordnance Survey. 1848.
- ^ Gahan 1985, pp. 29 & 88.
- ^ Marshall 1969, p. 154.
- ^ Awdry 1990, p. 88.
- ^ The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 205.
- ^ Lancashire XC.8 (Map). 25 inch. Ordnance Survey. 1893.
- ^ Gahan 1985, p. 88.
- ^ Gell 1986.
- ^ Ferneyhough 1975, pp. 164 & 176–177.
- ^ Clinker 1978, p. 49.
- ^ Williams 2011, p. 179.
- ^ Pettitt & Comfort 2015, pp. 59 & 171.
- ^ "Formby train station | timetable | ticket prices & facilities". www.merseyrail.org. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ^ Table 82 National Rail timetable, May 2023
Bibliography
- Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.
- Ferneyhough, Frank (1975). The History of Railways in Britain. Reading: Osprey. ISBN 0-85045-060-8. OCLC 2120140.
- Gell, Rob (1986). An Illustrated Survey of Railway Stations Between Southport & Liverpool 1848-1986. Heyday Publishing Company. ISBN 0-947562-04-4. (No page numbers.)
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Jacobs, Gerald (2009). "Railway Mileages". In Bridge, Mike (ed.). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain. Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-5-0.
- Marshall, John (1969). The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. Vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-4352-4.
- Pettitt, Gordon; Comfort, Nicholas (2015). The Regional Railways Story. ISBN 978-0-86093-663-3.
- Quick, Michael (2023) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.05. Railway & Canal Historical Society.
- Williams, Michael (2011). On the Slow Train. Random House. ISBN 978-1-84809-208-2.