Blundellsands & Crosby railway station

Railway station in Merseyside, England

Blundellsands & Crosby railway station is a railway station in the Blundellsands area of Merseyside, England. It also serves the adjacent town of Crosby. It is situated on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network.

History

Blundellsands & Crosby railway station opened on 24 July 1848 as Crosby when the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway (LC&SR) opened its line from Waterloo to Southport Eastbank Street.^[1]

The station was situated on the north side of Warren House lane (which became Mersey Road) which was crossed using a level crossing,^[1][2]

In 1852 the station was moved 250 yd (230 m) north to the south side of the newly built Blundellsands Road which was also crossed via a level crossing.^[1] This station was constructed from some of the materials from the recently closed Southport Eastbank Street opening on 1 June.^[1]

In 1850 the LC&SR had been authorised to lease, sell or transfer itself to the L&YR and on 14 June 1855 the L&YR purchased and took over the LC&SR.^[3][4]

The station was relocated again in 1865 to the north side of Blundellsands Road when it was renamed Blundellsands for Crosby, in November 1865 it was renamed Blundellsands & Crosby.^[a][1]

The station was extensively rebuilt in 1882.^[1] There were two platforms with substantial awnings. The down side buildings were of brick and stone construction whilst the up side were wooden.^[b][7]

There was a goods and coal yard situated behind the down platform, it was equipped with a four ton crane.^[8] and there were additional sidings on the up side of the line.^[7][9]

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922 and in turn was Grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Nationalisation followed in 1948.^[10]

The goods yard closed on 6 January 1964.^[11]

In 1978 the station became part of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line (operated by British Rail until privatised in 1995).^[12]

Facilities

The station underwent a revamp at a cost of £250,000 in 2009, including the installation of electronic timetables, in July that year. The refurbishment included a new toilet with disabled access, changes to the waiting rooms such as automatic doors, CCTV, new flooring, seats, new windows and heating. In 2010 a new 101-space car park was constructed on the site of the previous one, including new surfacing, marked bays, lighting and landscaping. There is also cycle racks for 30 cycles and secure cycle storage for 74 cycles.^[13]

Services

Trains operate every 15 minutes throughout the day from Monday to Saturday - they travel to Southport in the north and to Hunts Cross in Liverpool via Liverpool Central in the south.^[14] Sunday services travel every 30 minutes in each direction.

Gallery

• 
  The view towards Southport, in 1962.
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  A Merseyrail Class 507 arrives with a service from Liverpool.
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  The station entrance, from the roadside.
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  Platform decoration at the station.

References

Notes

1. Bradshaw's guides and timetables called the station Crosby & Blundellsands from December 1865 until 1877/1878 when they changed to Blundellsands & Crosby, see for example the 1866 version.^[5]
2. 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.^[6]

Citations

1. Quick 2023, p. 90.
2. Lancashire Sheet XCVIII (Map). Six-inch. Ordnance Survey. 1849.
3. Marshall 1969, p. 154.
4. Awdry 1990, p. 88.
5. Bradshaw 1866, table 186.
6. Simmons 1997, p. 548.
7. Gahan 1985, p. 85.
8. The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 65.
9. Lancashire XCVIII.8 (Map). 25 inch. Ordnance Survey. 1893.
10. Ferneyhough 1975, pp. 164 & 176–177.
11. Clinker 1978, p. 14.
12. Pettitt & Comfort 2015, pp. 59 & 171.
13. "Blundellsands-and-Crosby train station | timetable | ticket prices & facilities". www.merseyrail.org. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
14. 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.
• Bradshaw, George (1866). Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, for Great Britain and Ireland. Liverpool: Bradshaw & Blacklock.
• 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. ISBN 978-0-907768-07-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ignored ISBN errors (link)
• 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. 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.

External links

• Train times and station information for Blundellsands & Crosby railway station from National Rail
• Station information for Blundellsands & Crosby railway station from Merseyrail