Rainford railway station

"Rainford Junction" redirects here. For the settlement known as Rainford Junction, surrounding the station, see Rainford.

Rainford
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Location
Place	Rainford
Local authority	St Helens
Coordinates
Grid reference	SD478025
Operations
Station code	RNF
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	20,061
2005/06	29,828
2006/07	29,613
2007/08	31,656
2008/09	51,994
2009/10	47,484
2010/11	51,356
2011/12	52,288
2012/13	51,414
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Merseytravel
Zone	A2
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Rainford from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Rainford railway station is situated to the north of the village of Rainford, Merseyside, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Rail.

History

It was built in 1858 as Rainford Junction at the junction of the Liverpool and Bury Railway, the East Lancashire Railway's Skelmersdale Branch and the St. Helens Railway, replacing an earlier station (1848) called Rainford. Services on the line to St Helens were withdrawn on 18 June 1951 and to Ormskirk on 5 November 1956, although goods traffic survived on both until the early 1960s. Through trains from Liverpool Exchange to Wigan Wallgate and beyond continued up to the electrification of the Merseyrail line to Kirkby in 1977. The station was renamed Rainford on 7 May 1973.

Services

Trains operate to Kirkby (for connections to Liverpool) in one direction and to Wigan Wallgate and Bolton in the other, usually every hour (Monday to Saturday).

There is no late evening service and no service on a Sunday. A normal service operates on most bank holidays.

References

• Marshall, J. (1981) Forgotten Railways North-West England, David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd, Newton Abbott. ISBN 0-7153-8003-6

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995) Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Yeovil. ISBN 1-85260-508-1

External links

• Train times and station information for Rainford railway station from National Rail
• The station on a 1888-1913 Overlay OS Map via National Library of Scotland

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Kirkby		Northern Rail Kirkby Branch Line		Upholland
	Disused railways
Hey's Crossing Halt		Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Skelmersdale Branch		Terminus
Rainford Village		LNWR St. Helens Railway		Terminus