Wallasey_Village_railway_station

Wallasey Village railway station

Wallasey Village railway station

Railway station serving Wallasey, Merseyside, England


Wallasey Village railway station serves the Wallasey Village suburb of Wallasey, in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the Wirral Line miles (9 km) west of Liverpool Lime Street on the Merseyrail network.

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History

The station was built on the Wirral Railway's route from Birkenhead Park to New Brighton, opening in 1907[1] under the name Leasowe Road.[citation needed] Through services via the Mersey Railway Tunnel to Liverpool commenced when the line was electrified in 1938[2] by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. The station was rebuilt following extensive damage during World War II.[citation needed]

Facilities

The station is staffed, during all opening hours, and has platform CCTV.[3] There is a payphone on platform 1, a booking office, live departure and arrival screens, for passenger information, and each of the two platforms has a waiting room.[4] Being close to the centre of Wallasey Village, itself, the station does not have a free car park or a cycle rack. There is no access, to the platform, for passengers with wheelchairs or prams, as access is by staircase only.[4] In 2006, according to a Transport 2000 survey, the station was considered as a weak link, with regard to access.[5] As yet, platform access has not been modernised to the standard of that at Hooton.

Services

Current service levels are every 15 minutes to Liverpool and New Brighton during Monday to Saturday daytime, and every 30 minutes at other times.[6] These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 777 EMUs.

The station connects to the major bus routes on Leasowe Road.


References

  1. "Station Facilities for Wallasey Village". National Rail. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  2. "Wallasey Village Station Plan". National Rail. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  3. Fenna, Kelly (4 September 2007). "Station is weakest link say commuters". Wirral Globe. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  4. "Wirral Line timetable" (PDF). Merseyrail. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.

Sources

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53.423°N 3.069°W / 53.423; -3.069


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