| Information |
| Type: |
National Rail (Merseyrail
Northern Line) |
| Station code: |
BOT |
| Opened: |
1876 |
| Platforms: |
2 |
Bootle Oriel Road was opened by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in 1876 to replace the earlier
Bootle Village built further along the same road. The station was later operated by the LNWR, LMS and finally British Railways. Now it is a station on Merseyrail's Northern Line between
Bootle New Strand and
Bank Hall on the
Southport branch.
Bootle Oriel Road was at one time quite a grand station with 4 platforms which has station canopies though these disappeared as the station went into decline [1]. Happily the station benefited from a substantial rebuilt in 2008 - though still lacks cover!
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| Merseyrail 508 15 arrives on a Liverpool bound service |
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| Main station building |
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| Footbridge |
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| A Southport bound train arrives |
[1] Jonathan Cadwallader & Martin Jenkins, Merseyside Electrics (Ian Allan, 2010) p. 19
