Neston railway station serves the town of
Neston, Cheshire
Neston is a town and civil parish on the Wirral Peninsula, in Cheshire, England. It is part of the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester. The village of Parkgate is located to the north west and the villages of Little Neston and Ness ...
,
England. It is the southernmost station on the
English part of the
Borderlands Line before it reaches
Wales. The station is 8¾ miles (14 km) south of
Bidston
Bidston is a village, a parish and a suburb of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, in the modern county of Merseyside. The area is a mixture of the well-preserved Bidston Village, Bidston Hill, a modern housing estate, and the Bidston Moss nat ...
.
History
There was once a substantial station building on the Bidston bound platform. This fell into disrepair in the late 1990s though, and was finally demolished when the station was modernised for
Disability Discrimination Act compliancy in 2003.
Future
Long standing plans to electrify the
Borderlands Line have been put on hold due to the prohibitive cost of installing third rail electrification. This has led
Merseytravel to look at other options for the line, including the possibility of overhead lines.
Facilities
The station is unstaffed and only 'bus shelter' type structures offer passengers any protection from the elements. Bus interchange is available from the stop on Ladies Walk adjacent the Bidston bound platform. This is also from where rail replacement services leave. The station has a small car park next to the
Wrexham bound platform and a larger car park on the opposite side of the line, both owned and operated by the local council.
Services
The station is served by an hourly service on weekdays (two-hourly in the evening and on bank holidays)
southbound to Wrexham Central and northbound to
Bidston
Bidston is a village, a parish and a suburb of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, in the modern county of Merseyside. The area is a mixture of the well-preserved Bidston Village, Bidston Hill, a modern housing estate, and the Bidston Moss nat ...
for connections to Liverpool via the
Wirral Line. Services are provided by
Transport for Wales' fleet of
Class 150 diesel multiple unit
A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines. A DMU requires no separate locomotive, as the engines are incorporated into one or more of the carriages. Diesel-powered single-unit railcars are also ...
s.
On Sundays there are departures approximately every 90 minutes in each direction.
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Railway stations in Cheshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Great Central Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1896
Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
Neston
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