Capenhurst railway station

Capenhurst
General information
Location	Capenhurst, Cheshire West and Chester England
Coordinates	53°15′36″N 2°56′31″W / 53.260°N 2.942°W / 53.260; -2.942
Grid reference	SJ372740
Managed by	Merseyrail
Transit authority	Merseytravel
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CPU
Fare zone	G1/G2
Classification	DfT category F2
Passengers
2018/19	0.180 million
2019/20	0.168 million
2020/21	56,230
2021/22	0.141 million
2022/23	0.171 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Capenhurst railway station serves the village of Capenhurst and its substantial industrial facilities, in Cheshire, England. It also serves outer suburbs of Ellesmere Port. On the former GWR main line from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside it is now on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network, 5+1⁄4 miles (8.4 km) north of Chester.

Facilities

The station has platform CCTV, a 24-space car park and a cycle rack with 10 spaces as well as secure cycle storage for 20 cycles.^[1] Each platform has a waiting shelter with seating. There are departure and arrival screens, on the platform, for passenger information. There is access, to each platform, for passengers with wheelchairs or prams. However, cross-platform access, within the station, is by staircase only.

Capenhurst is one of four stations on the Merseyrail network that is unstaffed, the others being Bache, Little Sutton and Overpool. Passengers must purchase tickets from the Ticket Vending Machine located on the Chester-bound platform; the machine can issue tickets to any destination on the rail network. Passengers failing to purchase a ticket will be liable for a Penalty Fare if they board a Merseyrail service without obtaining a valid ticket. This station became part of the Merseyrail Penalty Fares Area on 15 June 2009.

Services

Trains between Chester and Liverpool call at Capenhurst every 30 minutes every day (including Sunday). The quarter-hourly service on the Chester line does not benefit Capenhurst since alternate trains run through the station non-stop between Hooton and Bache in each direction.^[2] These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 777 EMUs.

Gallery

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  The foot and road bridges.
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  The ticket machine and information boards.
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  A Merseyrail Class 508 departs for Chester.
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  The main entrance.

References

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2012). Chester to Birkenhead. Middleton Press. figs. 20-26. ISBN 9781908174215. OCLC 811323335.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Capenhurst railway station.

• Train times and station information for Capenhurst railway station from National Rail

• Station information for Capenhurst railway station from Merseyrail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Bache towards Chester		Merseyrail Wirral Line Chester Branch		Hooton towards Liverpool Central
	Historical railways
Mollington Line open, station closed		GWR & LNWR Chester and Birkenhead Railway		Ledsham Line open, station closed

This page was last edited on 19 February 2024, at 19:55