Meols railway station.html



Meols
Location
Place	Meols
Local authority	Wirral
Operations
Station code	MEO
Managed by	Merseyrail
Platforms in use	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.197 million
2005/06 *	0.197 million
2006/07 *	0.210 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	B2
History
1866 1938	Opened Rebuilt/Electrified
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Meols from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
UK Railways Portal

Meols railway station is situated in Meols, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It lies on the West Kirby branch of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network.

History

Meols station's art deco passenger shelter

Meols was one of the original stations on the Hoylake Railway, opening in 1866. The Hoylake Railway became part of the Wirral Railway in 1883, which subsequently became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Through services to Liverpool began in 1938, when the line was electrified. The station was rebuilt to coincide with this.

The main road which crosses the railway here originally did so by a level crossing. For the electrification scheme of 1938 a road bridge was built with a new station entrance and ticket office at the top of the bridge. The line of shops to the Hoylake side of the station at track level are situated on what was the old main road.

After 1938 the signalbox at the level crossing was closed, and semaphore Intermediate Block Signals, operating automatically, were introduced, the only such signals on the Liverpool to west Kirby line. They broke the otherwise long distance between Moreton and Hoylake, the two signalboxes on either side. These semaphore signals remained until the 1990s when the line was resignalled with colour-light signals.

Services

Current services are every 15 minutes (Monday to Saturday daytime) to West Kirby and Liverpool. At other times, trains operate every 30 minutes.

External links

• Train times and station information for Meols railway station from National Rail
• Station information from Merseyrail

This article on a railway station in Merseyside is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Coordinates: 53°23′56″N 3°09′14″W / 53.399, -3.154