Old Roan railway station
Old Roan 
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Old Roan railway station, from the Liverpool platform
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| Location | |
| Place | Aintree |
| Local authority | Sefton |
| Coordinates | 53°29′12″N 2°57′03″W / 53.4868°N 2.9508°WCoordinates: 53°29′12″N 2°57′03″W / 53.4868°N 2.9508°W |
| Grid reference | SJ370993 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | ORN |
| Managed by | Merseyrail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2012/13 |
 0.748 million |
| 2013/14 |
 0.865 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.897 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.903 million |
| 2016/17 |
0.921 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Merseytravel |
| Zone | C3 |
| History | |
| Original company | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| 17 February 1936 | Station opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Old Roan from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Old Roan railway station is a railway station in Aintree village, Merseyside, England, about seven miles north-east of Liverpool, on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network.
The station is located on Ormskirk Road, with the southbound platform accessible from Ormskirk Road and the northbound platform under the railway bridge on Copy Lane (which is actually in Netherton). Interchange with local bus services is available on both Ormskirk Road, Copy Lane and from the station's new bus terminus. Old Roan is a more convenient station for much of Aintree Village compared with Aintree.
The station was opened on 17 February 1936 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. The line was originally part of the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway, until the railway was later absorbed by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. Services ran from Ormskirk to Liverpool Exchange - the latter station closed in 1977 & now services run underground to Moorfields & continue on to Liverpool Central.
Housing development on what had previously been farmland encouraged the London Midland And Scottish Railway, successor to the Lancashire and Yorkshire, to build a station at Old Roan in 1935, it being named after an adjacent public house.
Although the lines on which Old Roan is situated ran parallel to those of the Cheshire Lines Committee's North Liverpool Extension Line, (running from Liverpool Central High Level to Southport Lord Street), there were no platforms on the CLC line, although a junction between the two routes did exist south of the station.
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