Town Meadow railway station

Town Meadow
National Rail
General information
LocationMoreton, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
England
Coordinates53°24′15″N 3°08′07″W / 53.4043°N 3.1354°W / 53.4043; -3.1354
Grid referenceSJ246903
Managed byMerseyrail

Town Meadow is a proposed railway station to serve the west of Moreton near Meols in the Wirral, England.[1][2] The station would be situated on the West Kirby branch of the Wirral Line.

The planned station forms part of the wider Local Transport Plan for Merseyside and is included on page 139 of the 2011–2015 document among other proposed stations at Carr Mill, Beechwood, Woodchurch and Deeside.[3]

Merseytravel found in a survey carried out in 2010 that support for the station was high.[4] The proposed station would serve existing and new developments in Moreton.

The Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Paul Maynard MP, visited the site in April 2017 with local councillors, to back calls for the building of the station. It was revealed that Merseytravel already own the land, but neither they nor Wirral Council had applied for a grant from the government's New Stations Fund. Merseytravel defended their decision, claiming that their plans for the station were not sufficiently advanced to bid for funding.[5] The October 2017 Liverpool City Region Combined Authority update to the Long Term Rail Strategy mentions that station as being built between Network Rail Control Periods CP5 and CP7.[6]

The land for the station has been reserved by the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral's local planning authority, which considers the station to be justified by the size of the catchment population.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Merseytravel plan to open or reopen host of new stations". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  2. ^ Manning, Craig (18 November 2010). "All aboard for Town Meadow Station - maybe". Wirral Globe. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Third Transport Plan for Merseyside" (PDF). Merseytravel. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2013.
  4. ^ Manning, Craig (1 October 2016). "Hopes for new Wirral railway station back on track". Wirral Globe. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  5. ^ Manning, Craig. "Rail minister backs call for new train station between Moreton and Meols". Wirral Globe. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  6. ^ Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. "Long Term Rail Strategy" (PDF). p. 50. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  7. ^ "TR1 New Railway Stations Proposal". Wirral Council. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
Preceding station Future services Following station
Meols
towards West Kirby 		  Merseyrail
Wirral Line
West Kirby Branch 		  Moreton
towards Liverpool Central