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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 .
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 ().
It is located 7.5 miles (12 km) north-east of Liverpool Central and is on the Headbolt Lane branch of Merseyrail's Northern Line. Until 2023, the station had been an interchange between Merseyrail services and Northern Trains services from Manchester Victoria via Wigan Wallgate, when that function was extended to Headbolt Lane.
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 following table lists the name and three-letter code of each station, the year it first opened, the metropolitan borough in which it lies, the zone(s) in which it is situated, the train operators who currently provide its services and the number of passengers using the station in the 2014–15 and 2015–16 financial years as collated by ...
The station is served by one train per hour between Headbolt Lane and Blackburn via Wigan Wallgate and Manchester Victoria. Connections for Merseyrail services to and from Liverpool Central can be made by changing at Headbolt Lane. [3] No services call at the station during late evenings or on Sundays.
Headbolt Lane to Wigan or Skelmersdale: Extending the Northern Line to Wigan Wallgate has been a long-term goal. Network Rail identified this extension as a route that would benefit from electrification and enable new patterns of passenger services to operate.
Westbound trains continue beyond Manchester via Atherton to Headbolt Lane via Wigan Wallgate (since the May 2018 timetable change). In the early morning, late evening and on Sundays, trains to Leeds operate via Halifax rather than Dewsbury. Sunday services run hourly each way to Blackburn and Leeds and twice each hour to Manchester. [3]