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Headbolt Lane is a railway station in Kirkby, Merseyside, England, which opened on 5 October 2023. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The station is the interchange between Merseyrail 's Northern Line and the unelectrified Headbolt Lane branch line , operated by Northern .
English: Map of the major railway stations of London. The thirteen terminal stations of London that are considered National Hubs ( Category A ).: Blackfriars, Cannon St, Charing Cross, Euston, Fenchurch St, King's Cross, Liverpool St, London Bridge, Marylebone, Paddington, St Pancras, Victoria, Waterloo.
Proposals to extend Merseyrail's Northern Line to a new terminal station at Headbolt Lane, between Kirkby and Rainford, were announced in 2007 [7] but did not receive funding until 2019. [8] Headbolt Lane station became the new terminal interchange between trains from Liverpool and Wigan/Manchester when it opened on 5 October 2023. [9]
The London Underground is a metro system in the United Kingdom that serves Greater London and the home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire. Its first section opened in 1863, [ 1 ] making it the oldest underground metro system in the world – although approximately 55% of the current network is above ground, [ 2 ] as it ...
The Northern line is one of two commuter rail routes operated by Merseyrail and centred on Merseyside, England, [5] the other being the Wirral line.The cross-city route runs from Hunts Cross in south Liverpool then (by way of an underground section through Liverpool's city centre) branches in the north to terminate at Southport, Headbolt Lane (both Merseyside) and Ormskirk ().
United Kingdom railway stations are grouped into one of a number of categories, ranging from A—national hub to F—small unstaffed bare platform. Many of the principal central London stations are managed by Network Rail and together form a London station group. Most other stations are managed by the train operating company that provides the ...
Station name Postcode External link to map of station at MultiMap Code External link to livedepartureboards showing current departures and arrivals for this station Habrough: DN40 3AP: HAB: Hackbridge: SM6 7BJ: HCB: Hackney Central: E8 1LR: HKC: Hackney Downs: E8 1LP: HAC: Hackney Wick: E9 5ER: HKW: Haddenham and Thame Parkway: HP17 8EQ: HDM ...
The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. [1] [2] He was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route mattered.