St Helens Junction
St Helens Junction 
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| Location | |
| Place | Sutton, Merseyside |
| Local authority | St Helens |
| Grid reference | SJ535932 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SHJ |
| Managed by | Northern |
| 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* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.260 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.252 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.344 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.359 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.386 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Merseytravel |
| Zone | A1 |
| History | |
| 1833 | 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 St Helens Junction from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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St Helens Junction railway station is a railway station serving St Helens, Merseyside, England. It is in Sutton, 3 miles south-west of St Helens town centre. The station is on the electrified northern route of the Liverpool to Manchester Line, 12 miles (19 km) east of Liverpool Lime Street (on the former Liverpool and Manchester Railway). The station and all trains calling there are presently operated by Northern.
The station was first opened in 1833, following commencement of operations on the main Liverpool - Manchester railway and was named "Junction" because it was located at the junction of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with the former St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway branch to the present St Helens Central. That route which opened on 21 February 1833 closed to passengers in 1965 (and completely in 1989), but the name remains. The station originally had three platforms - two through lines and a bay platform on the northern side of the main building which mostly dealt with local services (this is now part of the station roadway approach and car park arrangements).
To the west of the station on the south side of the line stood the London and North Western Railway tarpaulin factory, known locally as 'the sheeting sheds', access from Monastery Lane being provided by a footbridge known as 'the pudding bag bridge', a favourite location of trainspotters in the 1950s as the steam engines of westbound trains were being fired to climb the Sutton bank with its 2.5 km of 1 in 90 gradient.
The lines through the station were due to be electrified by December 2014 but the work was finally completed in early March 2015, 3 months behind schedule. Some long distance services to Leeds, York and the North East that were lost when the Liverpool - York (and beyond) Transpennine trains that were diverted via Warrington Central and Manchester Piccadilly in 1989 will be regained as part of the new TransPennine Express franchise agreement, although the current TPX Liverpool to Newcastle service passes through St. Helens Junction without calling (first stop is Manchester Victoria).
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