Formby railway station

Formby
General information
Location	Formby, Sefton England
Coordinates	53°33′13″N3°04′15″W / 53.5535°N 3.0708°W / 53.5535; -3.0708
Grid reference	SD292068
Managed by	Merseyrail
Transit authority	Merseytravel
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	FBY
Fare zone	D2
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
24 July 1848 (1848-07-24)	Opened as Formby and Altcar
1866	Renamed Formby
1913	Rebuilt
3 October 1960	Closed to goods
Passengers
2019/20	1.547 million
Freshfield towards Southport		Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway		Hightown towards Liverpool Exchange

Gallery

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  The ticket office at Formby.
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  The station frontage, on the main road.
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  A Merseyrail Class 507 waits at the station.
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  A building on the Southport-bound platform.
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  The station from the south

References

Notes

1. Up trains usually headed towards the major conurbation, usually London, some railway companies ran 'up' to their headquarters location. In this case 'up' was towards Liverpool. ^[3]

Citations

1. Quick 2023, p. 197.
2. Lancashire Sheet XC (Map). Six-inch. Ordnance Survey. 1848.
3. Simmons 1997, p. 548.
4. Gahan 1985, pp. 29 & 88.
5. Marshall 1969, p. 154.
6. Awdry 1990, p. 88.
7. The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 205.
8. Lancashire XC.8 (Map). 25 inch. Ordnance Survey. 1893.
9. Gahan 1985, p. 88.
10. Gell 1986.
11. Yorke 1987, p. 27.
12. Ferneyhough 1975, pp. 164 & 176–177.
13. Clinker 1978, p. 49.
14. Williams 2011, p. 179.
15. Pettitt & Comfort 2015, pp. 59 & 171.
16. "Formby train station | timetable | ticket prices & facilities". www.merseyrail.org. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
17. Table 82 National Rail timetable, May 2023

Bibliography

• Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   1-8526-0049-7. OCLC   19514063. CN 8983.
• Clinker, C. R. (October 1978). Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830–1977. Bristol: Avon-Anglia Publications & Services. ISBN   0-905466-19-5. OCLC   5726624.
• Ferneyhough, Frank (1975). The History of Railways in Britain . Reading: Osprey. ISBN   0-85045-060-8. OCLC   2120140.
• Gahan, John W. (1985). Seaport to Seaside: Lines to Southport and Ormskirk - 13 decades of trains and travel. Countryvise. ISBN   978-0-907768-07-5.
• Gell, Rob (1986). An Illustrated Survey of Railway Stations Between Southport & Liverpool 1848-1986. Heyday Publishing Company. ISBN   0-947562-04-4. (No page numbers.)
• Marshall, John (1969). The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. Vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN   978-0-7153-4352-4.
• Pettitt, Gordon; Comfort, Nicholas (2015). The Regional Railways Story . Oxford Publishing Company. ISBN   978-0-86093-663-3.
• Quick, Michael (2023) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.05. Railway & Canal Historical Society.
• Simmons, Jack (1997). "'up' and 'down'". In Simmons, Jack; Biddle, Gordon (eds.). The Oxford Companion to British Railway History From 1603 to the 1990s (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 548. ISBN   0-19-211697-5.
• The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. ISBN   0-7153-5120-6.
• Williams, Michael (2011). On the Slow Train . Random House. ISBN   978-1-84809-208-2.
• Yorke, Barbara (1987). Formby and Freshfield in times past . Countryside. ISBN   978-0-86157-230-4.

External links

• Train times and station information for Formby railway station from National Rail
• Station information for Formby railway station from Merseyrail