Hall Road railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Hall Road

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manager = Merseyrail
code = HLR
locale = Blundellsands
borough = Sefton
pte = Merseytravel
zone = C3
lowusage0405 = 69,251
lowusage0506 = 76,158
lowusage0607 = 88,355
platforms = 2
start = 1874
Hall Road railway station serves the Liverpool suburb of Blundellsands, Merseyside, England. The station is located on the Southport branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line. Hall Road TMD is adjacent to the station.

History

Hall Road opened in 1874 as an intermediate station on the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway, at a request from Joseph Gardner, a local merchant. Initially the railway company refused, but relented when he had five further houses built in the same location. [Gell, R: "An Illustrated Survey of Railway Stations between Southport & Liverpool 1848-1986". Heyday Publishing, 1986] .

It became part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1904, who took over from the LCSR. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922 and in turn was Grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Nationalisation followed in 1948 and in 1978 the station became part of the Merseyrail Network's Northern Line (operated by British Rail until privatised in 1995).

On 27 july1905, a Southport-bound express train collided at the station with an empty local service operating to Liverpool Exchange. 21 deaths and 45 injuries resulted, although both drivers survived. [http://www.valhalla-webs.co.uk/sites/dumbill/disasters.htm - although also mentioned by Gell, R (ibid).]

ervices

Trains operate every 15 minutes throughout the day from Monday to Saturday and on summer Sundays to Southport to the north, and to Hunts Cross via Liverpool Central to the south. Winter Sunday services are every 30 minutes in each direction.

External links

* [http://www.merseyrail.org/stations/?iStationId=30 Station information] from Merseyrail

References

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