West Allerton railway station

West Allerton
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Location
Place	Allerton
Local authority	Liverpool
Coordinates
Grid reference	SJ397862
Operations
Station code	WSA
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	4
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	23,291
2005/06	28,843
2006/07	28,084
2007/08	26,936
2008/09	36,874
2009/10	40,478
2010/11	46,098
2011/12	46,556
2012/13	45,966
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseyside
Zone	C1
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at West Allerton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

West Allerton railway station serves the suburb of Allerton, Liverpool in the north west of England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Rail.

The station opened on 2 January 1939.

There are 4 platforms, 2 of which, platforms 1 and 2, are located on the fast lines and are where most trains stop. 3 & 4 are on the slow lines and are used infrequently, mainly where faster services are booked to overtake stopping services on this stretch of line (This is most common in the Liverpool-bound direction). The platform layout consists of 3 structures:

- Platform 1 - single faced, on the Up Fast line.

- Platform 2-3 - double faced, between the Down Fast line & Up Slow lines.

- Platform 4 - single faced, on the Down Slow line.

All platforms have a basic glass and metal shelter approximately halfway along; the centre platform (2-3) is fully enclosed, whereas the outer platforms have single sided ones. Help points are provided for emergency use and for train running information.

The station building on the over bridge has a staffed booking office that is open during hours when trains are serving the station, this is operated by Northern Rail the station operator.

To the south is Allerton station which closed in 2005 to make way for Liverpool South Parkway which opened the following year.

Services

Services are roughly half hourly in each direction, towards Mossley Hill and Liverpool Lime Street to the west and towards Liverpool South Parkway and Manchester Oxford Road in the east. In the evenings the frequency is hourly in each direction.

xx:06 to Manchester Oxford Road via Warrington Central (Northern Rail)

calling: Liverpool South Parkway, Hunts Cross, Halewood, Hough Green, Widnes, Sankey for Penketh, Warrington Central, Padgate, Birchwood, Irlam, Urmston, Manchester Deansgate and Manchester Oxford Road

xx:36 to Liverpool Lime Street (Northern Rail)

calling: Mossley Hill, Edge Hill and Liverpool Lime Street

Gallery

• West Allerton railway station (1).jpg

  Station building on Booker Avenue

• West Allerton railway station (3).jpg

  View from top of steps

• West Allerton railway station (4).jpg

  Seating on the island platform

• West Allerton railway station (5).jpg

  Looking towards the footbridge

• West Allerton railway station (6).jpg

  Looking towards platform 4 from the island platform

• West Allerton railway station (7).jpg

  150203 at platform 1 en route to Manchester

External links

• Train times and station information for West Allerton railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Mossley Hill		Northern Rail Liverpool to Manchester Line(south)		Liverpool South Parkway