St Helens Shaw Street railway station
St Helens Central 
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| Location | |
| Place | St Helens |
| Local authority | St Helens |
| Coordinates | 53°27′10″N 2°43′48″W / 53.4529°N 2.730°WCoordinates: 53°27′10″N 2°43′48″W / 53.4529°N 2.730°W |
| Grid reference | SJ516953 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SNH |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.722 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.974 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.096 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.044 million |
| 2015/16 |
1.140 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Merseytravel |
| Zone | A1/A2 |
| History | |
| Original company | St Helens Canal and Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London and North Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | London Midland and Scottish Railway |
| 1 February 1858 | Opened as St Helens |
| 1 March 1949 | Renamed St Helens Shaw Street |
| 11 May 1987 | Renamed St Helens Central |
| 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 Central from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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St Helens Central railway station (previously known as St. Helens Shaw Street) is a railway station serving the town of St Helens, Merseyside, England. It is on the Liverpool to Wigan Line from Liverpool Lime Street to Wigan North Western. The station and all trains calling at it are operated by Northern.
The station is on the Merseyrail City Line. The City Line is the name given to local rail routes out of Liverpool Lime Street station operated by companies other than Merseyrail. The City Line appears on maps of the Merseyrail network as red, and covers the Liverpool-Wigan Line. Although it is branded under the Merseyrail name, the routes are operated by Northern on behalf of Merseytravel rather than by the Merseyrail franchise.
The station was originally opened by the St Helens Canal and Railway as St Helens on 1 February 1858 to replace two earlier nearby 1833 and 1849 stations. The original 1833 route from Widnes Dock through the town (along with the branch from St Helens Junction) and onwards to Rainford Junction (opened along with the station in 1858) was joined a decade later by the Lancashire Union Railway to Wigan North Western and Blackburn in December 1869, whilst the route southwestwards to Huyton was opened by the London and North Western Railway in 1871. It was renamed St Helens Shaw Street in 1949.
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