Spital railway station

Spital

Location
Place	Spital
Local authority	Wirral
Coordinates	53°20′24″N 2°59′39″W / 53.3400°N 2.9941°W / 53.3400; -2.9941Coordinates: 53°20′24″N 2°59′39″W / 53.3400°N 2.9941°W / 53.3400; -2.9941
Grid reference	SJ338831
Operations
Station code	SPI
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	0.203 million
2005/06	0.209 million
2006/07	0.204 million
2007/08	0.204 million
2008/09	0.331 million
2009/10	0.311 million
2010/11	0.321 million
2011/12	0.319 million
2012/13	0.310 million
2013/14	0.439 million
2014/15	0.470 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	B1/B2
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Spital from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Spital railway station, on the former main line from Birkenhead Woodside to London Paddington, is situated near Bebington on the Wirral Peninsula, England in the small suburb of Spital. The station is located on the Wirral Line operated by Merseyrail and there are frequent third rail electric train services to Liverpool, Chester and Ellesmere Port.

Facilities

The station is staffed, during all opening hours, and has platform CCTV.^[1] There is a payphone, a vending machine and a booking office. There are departure and arrival screens on the platforms for passenger information. Each of the two platforms has sheltered seating. The station has a car park, with 70 spaces, a cycle rack with 14 spaces, and a secure cycle locker with 30 spaces.^[2] Access to the station booking office is straightforward. There is no easy access for passengers with wheelchairs or prams to the platforms, as this is by staircase only.^[3] Platform access has not been modernised to the standard of that at Hooton.

Services

Trains run to Liverpool at a frequency of approximately every 10 minutes and a service to Chester every 15 minutes on weekdays and Saturdays until late evening when the service to each destination becomes half-hourly, as it is on Sundays. Additionally there is a half-hourly service to Ellesmere Port all day, every day.^[4] Northbound trains operate via Hamilton Square station in Birkenhead and the Mersey Railway Tunnel to Liverpool. Southbound trains all proceed as far as Hooton, where the lines to Chester and Ellesmere Port divide. These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.

Gallery

Two footbridges beyond the northern end of the station.
A Class 508 arrives with a service to Hooton.
The platform furniture.
The station frontage.

References

↑ Station Facilities for Spital Accessed 2013-12-20
↑ Spital train station facilities, Merseyrail Accessed 2013-12-20
↑ Spital Station Plan Accessed 2013-12-20
↑ "Wirral Line timetable" (PDF). Merseyrail. Retrieved 2013-12-18.

External links

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Train times and station information for Spital railway station from National Rail

Station information for Spital railway station from Merseyrail

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
Bromborough Rake towards Chester or Ellesmere Port		Merseyrail Wirral Line	Port Sunlight towards Liverpool Central
	Historical railways
Bromborough Line and station open		GWR & LNWR Chester and Birkenhead Railway	Port Sunlight Line and station open

Railway stations in Merseyside

Knowsley	Halewood Huyton Kirkby Prescot Roby Whiston

Liverpool (city centre stations in italics)	Aigburth Bank Hall Broad Green Brunswick Cressington Edge Hill Fazakerley Hunts Cross James Street Kirkdale Liverpool Central Liverpool Lime Street Liverpool South Parkway Moorfields Mossley Hill Orrell Park Rice Lane St Michaels Sandhills Walton Wavertree Technology Park West Allerton

Sefton	Ainsdale Aintree Birkdale Blundellsands & Crosby Bootle New Strand Bootle Oriel Road Formby Freshfield Hall Road Hightown Hillside Maghull Meols Cop Old Roan Seaforth & Litherland Southport Waterloo

St Helens	Earlestown Eccleston Park Garswood Lea Green Newton-le-Willows Rainford Rainhill St Helens Central St Helens Junction Thatto Heath

Wirral	Bebington Beechwood (proposed) Bidston Birkenhead Central Birkenhead North Birkenhead Park Bromborough Bromborough Rake Conway Park Eastham Rake Green Lane Hamilton Square Heswall Hoylake Leasowe Manor Road Meols Moreton New Brighton Port Sunlight Rock Ferry Spital Upton Wallasey Grove Road Wallasey Village West Kirby Woodchurch (proposed)

Outside Merseyside, but within the Merseytravel area	Hooton Hough Green Town Green Aughton Park Ormskirk

Transport in Merseyside Merseytravel Merseyrail

Merseyrail Wirral Line Stations

New Brighton Branch:	New Brighton Wallasey Grove Road Wallasey Village

West Kirby Branch:	West Kirby Hoylake Manor Road Meols Moreton Leasowe Bidston

Northern Branch:	Birkenhead North Birkenhead Park Conway Park

Liverpool Loop:	Hamilton Square James Street Moorfields Liverpool Lime Street Liverpool Central

Southern Branch:	Birkenhead Central Green Lane Rock Ferry Bebington Port Sunlight Spital Bromborough Rake Bromborough Eastham Rake Hooton

Chester Branch:	Capenhurst Bache Chester

Ellesmere Port Branch:	Little Sutton Overpool Ellesmere Port

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