Whiston railway station

Whiston railway station serves the village of Whiston in Merseyside, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Trains. It lies on the electrified northern route of the Liverpool to Manchester Line, the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway 7 ¹⁄₂ miles (12 km) east of Liverpool Lime Street. It was opened in October 1990 by British Rail, at a cost of £420,000.

Whiston
Location
Place	Whiston
Local authority	Knowsley
Grid reference	SJ471910
Operations
Station code	WHN
Managed by	Northern Trains
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	0.361 million
2015/16	0.370 million
2016/17	0.367 million
2017/18	0.411 million
2018/19	0.193 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	A3/C2/C3
History
1990	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 Whiston from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Facilities

The station is staffed throughout the day, from 06:00 to 23:55 Mondays through to Saturdays and 08:40 to midnight on Sundays. The ticket office is on the Liverpool-bound platform. There are also waiting shelters, help points, timetable poster boards and digital information screens on each platform. Both platforms have step-free access, as has the connecting bridge between them.[1]

Services

Whiston is served by Northern Trains services between Liverpool Lime Street and either Crewe via Manchester Airport or Warrington Bank Quay every half-hour on Monday to Saturday daytimes. In the evenings there is an hourly service to Wilmslow via the Airport & to Liverpool.[2] Local trains to Manchester Victoria now only run at peak periods and early mornings/late evenings. There is also a single evening peak train to Wigan North Western that uses the Parkside curve east of Newton-le-Willows to access the West Coast Main Line.

On Sundays, trains run once per hour between Liverpool Lime Street and Wilmslow via Manchester Airport.

Following completion of electrification of the line in Spring 2015, the Liverpool to Manchester Airport, Liverpool to Manchester Victoria and Liverpool to Warrington Bank Quay services are now operated by 4-Car Class 319 and 3-car Class 323 Electric Multiple Units.

Gallery

• 
  The station booking office and entrance.
• 
  A Northern Rail Class 142 waits at the station.
• 
  One of the platform waiting shelters.
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  A DB Schenker Class 60 passes through the station with a freight train.

References

1. Whiston station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 22 December 2016
2. Table 90 National Rail timetable, May 2019

External links

• Train times and station information for Whiston railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Huyton		Northern Trains Liverpool to Manchester Line		Rainhill