Little Sutton railway station

Little Sutton railway station serves the village of Little Sutton, near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. It is situated on the Ellesmere Port branch of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network. The station is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[1] The station opened in 1863 as "Sutton" and was renamed Little Sutton in 1886. It became part of the Merseyrail network in 1994, when the branch from Hooton to Ellesmere Port was electrified by British Rail, and through train services to Liverpool via Birkenhead commenced.

Little Sutton
Location
Place	Little Sutton, Cheshire
Local authority	Cheshire West and Chester
Coordinates	53.2854°N 2.9433°W / 53.2854; -2.9433
Grid reference	SJ372769
Operations
Station code	LTT
Managed by	Merseyrail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	145,410
2015/16	151,722
2016/17	135,486
2017/18	109,506
2018/19	116,676
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	G1
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Little Sutton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

As of 2013/14, Little Sutton is the least used station on the Merseyrail network.

Facilities

The station has platform CCTV.[2] Each platform has a sheltered waiting area. There are electronic departure and arrival screens, on the platform, for passenger information. There is a payphone, next to the entrance, on platform 2.[3] There is ramp access, to each platform, for passengers with wheelchairs or prams. However, cross-platform access, within the station, is by staircase only. Platform access has not been modernised to the standard of that at Hooton.

Little Sutton is one of four stations on the Merseyrail network that is Unstaffed, the others being Bache, Capenhurst and Overpool. Passengers purchase tickets from the Ticket Vending Machine located on the platform. This machine can issue tickets to any destination on the rail network. Passengers failing to purchase a ticket will be liable for a Penalty Fare if they board a Merseyrail service without obtaining a valid ticket. The station became part of the Merseyrail Penalty Fares Area on 15 June 2009.

Services

This station is served by trains bound for Liverpool Central and Ellesmere Port, with platform 1 serving Ellesmere Port bound services and platform 2 serving Liverpool bound services, and is classed by Merseyrail as part of the Ellesmere Port branch of the Wirral Line.

Services call at this station every thirty minutes or less, including Sundays.[4] These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.

Gallery

• 
  A Merseyrail Class 508 at the station, with a service to Liverpool Central.
• 
  The booking office, seen from the street.
• 
  A platform view of the booking office.
• 
  The footbridge.

References

1. Historic England, "Little Sutton Station (1104906)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 20 August 2013
2. Little Sutton train station facilities, Merseyrail, retrieved 30 January 2014
3. Station Facilities for Little Sutton, retrieved 30 January 2014
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. 95-97. ISBN 9781908174215. OCLC 811323335.

External links

• Train times and station information for Little Sutton railway station from National Rail

• Station information for Little Sutton railway station from Merseyrail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Overpool towards Ellesmere Port		Merseyrail Wirral Line Ellesmere Port Branch		Hooton towards Liverpool Central