Heysham Port railway station

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Heysham Port
Location
Place	Heysham
Local authority	Lancaster
Operations
Station code	HHB
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	1
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	5,696
2005/06 *	5,251
2006/07 *	6,924
2007/08 *	7,178
History
Opened 1 September 1904 (1 September 1904)
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Heysham Port from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Morecambe Lancaster Heysham Port
Legend West Coast Main Line north Bare Lane Morecambe Heysham Port Lancaster West Coast Main Line south

Heysham Port railway station is a railway station that serves the port of Heysham in Lancashire. It is the terminus of the Morecambe Branch Line from Lancaster.

A twice-daily service formerly served the station (the first around midday with a second approximately an hour later), which connected with the ferry to Douglas in the Isle of Man. These services were operated by Northern Rail as an extension of the Lancaster-Morecambe shuttle. A Sunday service ran during the summer months.

From December 2008 however the service has been reduced to one train each way per day, which runs to and from Leeds ^[1]. This is scheduled to arrive at 12:57 (12:54 on Saturdays), returning to Leeds at 13:15. A Sunday service (of two trains each way) will run in summer 2009 from the mid-May timetable change until mid-September.^[2]

The station, which was first opened by the Midland Railway in 1904, served boat trains for Belfast until the closure of the ferry route in April 1975. The train service was then withdrawn a few months later (on 6 October), but reinstated in May 1987 to provide a rail connection with the daily sailing to Douglas.

The station formerly had additional platforms (which can still be seen), a Shell fuel oil distribution terminal and also a frequent EMU local service to and from Lancaster via Morecambe (which began in 1908), but this ended in January 1966 ^[3] when the old Midland route to Lancaster Green Ayre fell victim to the Beeching Axe. The overhead electrification on the branch was removed at the same time.

Contents 1 Notes 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Marshall, J (1981) Forgotten Railways North-West England, David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd, Newton Abbott. ISBN 0 7153 8003 6

[edit] See also

• MR electric units
• Morecambe Branch Line

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Heysham Port railway station from National Rail
• Heysham Line Rail Photos 1980 - 2006

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Morecambe		Northern Rail Morecambe Branch Line		Terminus
Terminus		Isle of Man Steam Packet Ferry		Douglas

Coordinates: 54°01′59″N 2°54′47″W / 54.033°N 2.913°W / 54.033; -2.913

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