Upton railway station
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Location | |
Place | Upton |
Local authority | Wirral |
Grid reference | SJ279882 |
Operations | |
Station code | UPT |
Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
Number of platforms | 2 |
DfT category | F2 |
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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Annual rail passenger usage* | |
2004/05 | 13,863 |
2005/06 | 14,662 |
2006/07 | 12,976 |
2007/08 | 15,477 |
2008/09 | 20,902 |
2009/10 | 21,036 |
2010/11 | 22,720 |
2011/12 | 24,116 |
2012/13 | 23,750 |
2013/14 | 27,960 |
Passenger Transport Executive | |
PTE | Merseytravel |
Zone | B1 |
History | |
Key dates | Opened 1896 |
National Rail – UK railway stations | |
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Upton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
UK Railways portal |
Upton railway station serves the village of Upton, and the Noctorum area of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. The station is situated on the Borderlands Line. Arriva Trains Wales operates the station and all trains serving it.
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History
Upton Station was opened to passengers on 18 May 1896, as part of the Dee and Birkenhead Railway.[1] The station became part of the North Wales and Liverpool Railway, less than three months later, on 7 July 1896.[1]
The station used to have a booking office, on the road bridge, which spans the two platforms.[2][3] The booking office was removed during redevelopment of the station and expansion of the road bridge in the 1970s. The station also used to have its own brick-built waiting room, situated on the Bidston-bound platform.[4]
Freight and goods
Adjacent to the station there was a coal and goods yard, which is the site of a Co-Operative supermarket. Access to the yard was operated by a small signal box, which was situated at the southern end of the Bidston-bound platform.[5]
Iron ore freight trains also passed through the station.[3][5] These freight trains operated from Bidston Dock to the John Summers steelworks in Shotton. The Class 9F locomotive 92203, later named as Black Prince, worked the final steam-hauled iron ore train in November 1967.[6][7][8] The freight service itself ended around 1980.
Future
Proposals have been put forward to electrify the track as part of the Borderlands Electrification scheme. Merseyrail would like to see the line electrified to link with its own third-rail service, with a doubling of the frequency of services.[9] This would allow the station to serve as a part of a direct service to Liverpool.
Arriva Trains Wales have an Adopt a Station initiative, Upton Station is on their list of adopted stations and has been adopted by a member, or members, of the public.[10]
Facilities
The station facilities are somewhat rudimentary. The station is unstaffed, at nearly all times, but has platform CCTV.[11] Each of the two platforms has a waiting shelter with seating. There is no payphone or booking office, but there are electronic departure and arrival screens for live information to passengers. There is no official station car park, but very limited parking outside the station, at the drop-off point, on the old Ford Road bridge. Wheelchair and pram access to each of the two platforms is possible, and relatively easy, via the ramp-staircases. Though, as yet, platform access has not been modernised to the standard of that at Hooton.
Services
From Monday to Saturday, there is an hourly service between Bidston and Wrexham Central (two-hourly in the evening and on Bank Holidays). There is an irregular service (six trains each way) on Sundays. Services are provided by an Arriva Trains Wales Class 150/2 Sprinter DMU.
Gallery
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An Arriva Trains Wales Class 150 at Upton.
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Arriva Trains Wales Class 150, 150231, Upton railway station (geograph 3800122).jpg
An Arriva Trains Wales Class 150 departs with a service to Bidston, behind which is one of the easy-access ramps.
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The station overbridge, looking towards Bidston.
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A view of the two platforms and bridge.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 p.29, A Portrait of Wirral's Railways, Jermy, R., Countryvise, 1987. ISBN 0-907768-17-2
- ↑ p.59, Railway Stations of Wirral, Merseyside Railway History Group, 1994. ISBN 1-899241-02-7
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Flickr - 92xxx Upton Stn. 19.7.67 Accessed 2014-06-07
- ↑ p.122, British Railways Past and Present No.39, Liverpool and Wirral, Shannon, P. and Hillmer, J., Past and Present Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-85895-199-2
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Flickr - 92057 Upton Stn. 19.7.67 Accessed 2014-06-07
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- ↑ Station Facilities for Upton (Merseyside) Accessed 2013-12-18
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Upton railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Upton railway station from National Rail
- The railway in Upton, including various historical photographic images, courtesy of Upton.cx
Upton Station is on the list of stations adopted as part of the Adopt a Station initiative of Arriva Trains Wales.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Heswall | Arriva Trains Wales Borderlands Line |
Bidston | ||
Historical railways | ||||
Storeton | Great Central Railway North Wales and Liverpool Railway |
Bidston |
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