Heysham Port railway station

Heysham Port railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Heysham Port



manager = Northern Rail
locale = Heysham
borough = Lancaster
start = 1 September 1904
platforms = 1
lowusage0405 = 5,696
lowusage0506 = 5,251
lowusage0607 = 6,924
code = HHB

Heysham Port railway station is a railway station that serves the port of Heysham in Lancashire.It is the terminus of the Morecambe Branch Line from Lancaster.

A twice daily service serves the station (the first around midday with a second approximately an hour later), which connects with the ferry to Douglas in the Isle of Man. These services are operated by Northern Rail as an extension of the Lancaster-Morecambe shuttle.

The station, which was first opened by the Midland Railway in 1904, served boat trains for Belfast until the closure of the ferry route in April 1975. The train service was then withdrawn a few months later (on 6 October), but reinstated in May 1987 to provide a rail connection with the daily sailing to Douglas.

The station formerly had additional platforms (which can still be seen) and also a frequent EMU local service to and from Lancaster via Morecambe but the latter ended in January 1966 [Marshall, p.158] , when the old Midland route to Lancaster Green Ayre fell victim to the Beeching Axe.

Notes

References

* Marshall, J (1981) "Forgotten Railways North-West England", David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd, Newton Abbott. ISBN 0 7153 8003 6

ee Also

* MR electric units
* Morecambe Branch Line

External links

* [http://peter-cooper.fotopic.net/c1121579.html Heysham Line Rail Photos 1980 - 2006]

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