Eastham Rake railway station

Eastham Rake railway station is a railway station serving the village of Eastham on the Wirral Peninsula, England. It is situated on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network 8 ¹⁄₂ miles (13.7 km) south west of Liverpool Lime Street. The station is relatively new, having opened to passengers in 1995.

Eastham Rake
Location
Place	Eastham
Local authority	Wirral
Coordinates	53.3077°N 2.9813°W / 53.3077; -2.9813
Grid reference	SJ347794
Operations
Station code	ERA
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	0.336 million
2015/16	0.328 million
2016/17	0.303 million
2017/18	0.290 million
2018/19	0.427 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	B2
History
1995	Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Eastham Rake from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Facilities

The station is staffed, during all opening hours, and has platform CCTV.[1] There is a payphone, a vending machine and a booking office. There are departure and arrival screens, on the platform, for passenger information. Each of the two platforms has sheltered seating. There is a free car park with 101 spaces, a cycle rack with 6 spaces, and a secure cycle locker with 44 spaces.[2] Access to the station booking office is on the pavement. Access to each of the two platforms is by a stepped ramp. This allows relatively easy access for passengers with wheelchairs or prams.[3]

Services

Trains operate every 15 minutes between Chester and Liverpool on weekdays and Saturdays until late evening when the service becomes half-hourly, as it is on Sundays. Additionally there is a half-hourly service between Liverpool and Ellesmere Port all day, every day.[4] Northbound trains operate via Hamilton Square station in Birkenhead and the Mersey Railway Tunnel to Liverpool. Southbound the next station is Hooton, where the lines to Chester and Ellesmere Port divide. These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.

Gallery

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  A Class 507 arrives with a service to Liverpool Central.
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  The platforms and footbridge.
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  A Class 507 arrives with a service.
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  The platforms and footbridge.

References

1. Station Facilities for Eastham Rake Accessed 2013-12-20
2. Eastham Rake train station facilities, Merseyrail Accessed 2017-2-8
3. Eastham Rake Station Plan
4. "Wirral Line timetable" (PDF). Merseyrail. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2012). Chester to Birkenhead. Middleton Press. figs. 41-43. ISBN 9781908174215. OCLC 811323335.

External links

• Train times and station information for Eastham Rake railway station from National Rail

• Station information for Eastham Rake railway station from Merseyrail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Hooton towards Chester or Ellesmere Port		Merseyrail Wirral Line Ellesmere Port/Chester		Bromborough towards Liverpool Central