Meols Cop railway station

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Meols Cop
Location
Place	Blowick
Local authority	Sefton
Operations
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2005/06 *	26,821
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PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	D1
History
November 1, 1887	Opened
1909	Electrified
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Meols Cop from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Meols Cop railway station serves the Blowick suburb of the coastal town of Southport, Merseyside, England. The station has an island platform and is served by Northern Rail's Manchester Victoria – Wigan Wallgate branch services, on which it is the penultimate stop before the terminus at Southport. The station is unstaffed, and there is no service on Sundays.

[edit] History

Meols Cop opened on November 1, 1887, originally as part of the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway. It is the only part of that line still in use, having replaced a section of the Manchester and Southport Railway.

The line around Meols Cop was electrified in 1909 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, though the third rail was unused after 1964 with the closure of the Southport-Crossens service.

[edit] References

• Gell, Rob (1986). An Illustrated Survey of Railway Stations Between Southport & Liverpool 1848-1986. Heyday Publishing Company, ISBN 0-947562-04-4.

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Meols Cop railway station from National Rail