Hooton railway station
Hooton 
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The booking office.
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| Location | |
| Place | Hooton |
| Local authority | Cheshire West and Chester |
| Coordinates | 53°17′49″N 2°58′37″W / 53.297°N 2.977°WCoordinates: 53°17′49″N 2°58′37″W / 53.297°N 2.977°W |
| Grid reference | SJ349782 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | HOO |
| Managed by | Merseyrail |
| Number of platforms | 4 (only 2 see regular use) |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.535 million |
| – Interchange | 0.059 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.524 million |
| – Interchange |
0.061 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.692 million |
| – Interchange |
0.113 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.759 million |
| – Interchange |
0.119 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.832 million |
| – Interchange |
0.113 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Merseytravel |
| Zone | B2/G1 |
| History | |
| 23 September 1840 | Opened |
| 30 September 1985 | Electrified from Rock Ferry |
| 7 October 1993 | Electrified to Chester |
| 29 May 1994 | Electrified to Ellesmere Port |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hooton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Hooton railway station is situated in the south of the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, England. It lies on the Wirral Line 8 miles (13 km) north of Chester and 9 1⁄2 miles (15.3 km) south west of Liverpool Lime Street on the Merseyrail network, and is the junction of the branch from the Chester line to Ellesmere Port. It serves the villages of Hooton and Willaston.
The station is midway between Junction 5 of the M53 motorway and Willaston village. It provides a major park and ride facility for Birkenhead, Liverpool and Chester, being convenient of access from north east Wales by the A550. The station car park contains compliant blue badge parking spaces; a variable height counter and new cycle parking were provided in 2007. Network Rail has installed a DDA compliant structure to replace the original footbridge, with lifts to all platforms; it was completed at the end of January 2011, making Hooton a wholly 'disabled friendly' station. An 'M to Go' shop was opened in March 2010. Improvements to the station also include new waiting rooms on platforms and fully accessible toilet facilities.
Hooton station is located on the former Birkenhead Railway, a joint railway owned by the Great Western Railway and the London and North Western Railway. The station was opened by the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, a constituent of the Birkenhead Railway, which opened on 23 September 1840 and was to become until 1967 the northern end of the GWR's main line from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside.
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