Heysham Port railway station

Heysham Port
Location
Place	Heysham
Local authority	Lancaster
Coordinates	54.0335°N 2.9125°W / 54.0335; -2.9125
Operations
Station code	HHB
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	1
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	5,696
2005/06 *	5,251
2006/07 *	6,924
2007/08 *	7,178
2008/09 *	7,606
2009/10 *	7,752
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
11 July 1904	Opened as Heysham Harbour
4 May 1970	Relocated
6 October 1975	Closed
11 May 1987	Reopened as Heysham Sea Terminal
28 September 1992	Renamed Heysham Port
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 estimated 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. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

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 serves the port of Heysham in Lancashire. It is the terminus of the Morecambe Branch Line from Lancaster.

Services

A twice-daily service formerly served the railway 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. 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) operated in summer 2009 from the mid-May timetable change until mid-September. This will run once again during the summer 2010 & 2011 timetable periods.

The train service was temporarily suspended in March 2011 for sixteen weeks (late March until mid-July), as the Barrow-based drivers who normally operate the daily service were unavailable due to the Arnside viaduct engineering blockade. A replacement bus service ran to & from Lancaster for the duration of the work, which was completed in time for a resumption of train services on 18 July.

History

The station, which was first opened under the name Heysham Harbour by the Midland Railway on 11 July 1904, and relocated to an adjacent site on 4 May 1970, 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, with the station renamed Heysham Sea Terminal, on 11 May 1987 to provide a rail connection with the daily sailing to Douglas. The station acquired its present name on 28 September 1992.

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 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.

See also

• MR electric units

References

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

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
	Historical railways
Morecambe Promenade		Midland Railway North Western Line		Terminus