Aughton Park railway station

Aughton Park railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Aughton, Lancashire, England, on the Ormskirk branch of the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network 11½ miles (19 km) north east of Liverpool Central.

Aughton Park
The station in 2013
Location
Place	Aughton
Local authority	West Lancashire
Coordinates	53.5542°N 2.8953°W / 53.5542; -2.8953
Grid reference	SD408067
Operations
Station code	AUG
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*
2014/15	0.183 million
2015/16	0.187 million
2016/17	0.200 million
2017/18	0.181 million
2018/19	0.204 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	F
History
May 1907	Station opens as Aughton Park Halt
By 1938	Renamed Aughton Park
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Aughton Park from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

The station is below ground level built into a cutting. Opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, the station became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Regional Railways on behalf of the Merseyside PTE until the privatisation of British Railways.

Facilities

The station is staffed throughout the day (like all Merseytravel stations), with the ticket office open from start of service until the last train has called throughout the week. There are shelters on both platforms and a pay phone on platform 1. Train running information is provided by automated announcements and digital display screens. No step-free access to either platform is available.[1]

Services

Trains operate every 15 minutes on Monday to Saturday daytimes between Ormskirk and Liverpool Central, and every 30 minutes at other times (evenings and Sundays).[2]

Gallery

• 
  The station during the summer.
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  The station bridge, viewed from the opposite platform.
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  A Merseyrail Class 507 waits at the station.
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  The end of the platform.

Notes

1. Aughton Park Station Facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 13 December 2016
2. Table 105 National Rail timetable, May 2017

References

• 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. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

• Train times and station information for Aughton Park railway station from National Rail

• Station information for Aughton Park railway station from Merseyrail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Ormskirk Terminus		Merseyrail Northern Line		Town Green towards Liverpool Central