Fazakerley railway station

This station was once named Aintree: for a guide to the various Aintree stations that have existed and their relationship to each other see Aintree Stations.

Fazakerley
Fazakerley railway station in 2012
Location
Place	Fazakerley
Local authority	Liverpool
Coordinates
Grid reference	SJ379974
Operations
Station code	FAZ
Managed by	Merseyrail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.301 million
2005/06	0.329 million
2006/07	0.319 million
2007/08	0.331 million
2008/09	0.890 million
2009/10	0.832 million
2010/11	0.864 million
2011/12	0.861 million
2012/13	0.790 million
2013/14	1.062 million
2014/15	1.088 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	C1
History
Original company	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
20 November 1848	Station opens as Simonswood
by 1850	Renamed Aintree
March 1860	Renamed Fazakerley
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Fazakerley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Fazakerley railway station is a railway station in Fazakerley, Liverpool, England. It is situated on the Kirkby branch of the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. The station itself has recently undergone some refurbishment work.

History

The Liverpool and Bury Railway (L&BR) was authorised in 1845, but while it was under construction, the L&BR amalgamated with the Manchester and Leeds Railway (M&LR) in 1846, and the M&LR in turn was renamed the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1847. The line opened on 20 November 1848; one of the original stations was Simonswood. This station was renamed twice: it had become Aintree by 1850, and in March 1860 it took its present name Fazakerley to avoid confusion with the nearby Aintree station on a different line, which had opened in 1849.

At the time of opening, the mileage of the station was from Bury. but this has since been amended to 31 miles 31 chains (50.5 km) from Manchester Victoria via Wigan.

To the north-east of the station is Fazakerley Junction, 30 miles 72 chains (49.7 km) from Manchester Victoria, which is where the North Mersey Branch once headed westwards towards Gladstone Dock. The branch has closed, but the junction remains as the point where the double track out of Liverpool becomes single track for the last few miles into Kirkby.

Services

During Monday to Saturday daytimes, there are trains every 15 minutes between Kirkby and Liverpool Central. At other times, trains operate every 30 minutes.

External links

• Train times and station information for Fazakerley railway station from National Rail

• Station information for Fazakerley railway station from Merseyrail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Kirkby Terminus		Merseyrail Northern Line		Rice Lane towards Liverpool Central