Seaforth & Litherland railway station

Seaforth & Litherland
Location
Place	Seaforth
Local authority	Sefton
Coordinates	53.4657°N 3.0050°W / 53.4657; -3.0050
Grid reference	SJ333970
Operations
Station code	SFL
Managed by	Merseyrail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.300 million
2005/06 *	0.336 million
2006/07 *	0.337 million
2007/08 *	0.362 million
2008/09 *	0.832 million
2009/10 *	0.766 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	C3
History
Original company	Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
1 October 1850 (1850-10-01)	Opened as Seaforth
July 1905	Renamed Seaforth and Litherland
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 Seaforth & Litherland from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Seaforth & Litherland railway station is a railway station in Seaforth, Liverpool, England on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. It also serves the adjacent area of Litherland.

History

The main section of the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway (LCSR), that between Waterloo and Southport, opened in July 1848. On 1 October 1850, the line was extended southwards to Sandhills, where it connected with an existing line into Liverpool from Preston and from Bury. Among the intermediate stations on the extension was one at Seaforth, situated 4+¹⁄₂ miles (7.2 km) from the new southern terminus at Liverpool (Tithebarn Street) (later Liverpool Exchange). The LCSR was absorbed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at the start of 1855. Seaforth station was renamed Seaforth and Litherland in July 1905. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922 and in turn was Grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at the start of 1923. Nationalisation followed in 1948 and in 1978 the station became part of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line (operated by British Rail until privatised in 1995).

The station also provided a service from 2 July 1905 to Dingle in south Liverpool (and all intermediate stations running parallel with the Liverpool dock system) via Liverpool on the Liverpool Overhead Railway up until 30 December 1956, when the LOR was closed and later demolished. The station underwent improvement work in 2009.

Services

Trains operate every 15 minutes throughout the day from Monday to Saturday and on summer Sundays to Southport to the north, and to Hunts Cross via Liverpool Central to the south. Winter Sunday services are every 30 minutes in each direction.

External links

• Train times and station information for Seaforth & Litherland railway station from National Rail

• Station information for Seaforth & Litherland railway station from Merseyrail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Bootle New Strand		Merseyrail Northern Line		Waterloo
	Disused railways
Gladstone Dock		North Mersey Branch		Waterloo
Seaforth Sands		Liverpool Overhead Railway