Huyton railway station

Huyton
Northern Class 150 heading to Liverpool in 2014
Location
Place	Huyton
Local authority	Knowsley
Grid reference	SJ440906
Operations
Station code	HUY
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	4 (3 in use)
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12	1.234 million
2012/13	1.150 million
2013/14	0.990 million
2014/15	0.953 million
2015/16	1.003 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	C1/A3/C2/C3
History
1830	Opened
2010	Renovated
2015	Electrification and reopening of disused platforms
National Rail – UK railway stations
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Huyton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Huyton railway station serves the area of Huyton in Merseyside, England. The station acts as an interchange between the Liverpool-Wigan Line and the northern route of the Liverpool-Manchester Line which diverge soon after the station. It is one of the busier stations on these lines. The station is close to the shopping centre and bus station.

Huyton station was opened in 1830 as part of George Stephenson's Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and as such is one of the oldest passenger railway stations in the world. The station was originally named as Huyton Lane Gate, then as Huyton Lane by 1839, and finally as Huyton around 1852. The oldest surviving station buildings are from the LNWR period. Until the 1970s, Huyton station had four platforms, but the two platforms on the northern side of the station (Platforms 3 and 4) were closed, and the track was lifted.

Almost £1 million was spent in modernising the station in 2010. The works include a new canopy on Platform 1, a new waiting shelter on Platform 2 and a new disability compliant toilet was also installed. Improvements also included updating the subway which provided better lighting, state-of-the-art CCTV and new seating areas.

As part of the electrification of the Liverpool-Manchester Line, Platform 3 was brought back into use in time for the December 2014 timetable change. This work also saw the station signal box closed and demolished as part of the associated resignalling scheme, which controlled the line between Roby and Rainhill (Earlestown line)/Prescot (Wigan line). The last few semaphore signals, which it formerly controlled, were removed in September 2012. Electrification has been in place since March 2015.

Platform 4 is in the process of being re-instated, as part of the improvements involved with the Liverpool to Manchester and Wigan electrification. From December 2017, the new northern rail franchisee Arriva Rail North - operating under the brand 'Northern' - will also run through trains from here to Leeds via Manchester and Bradford Interchange.