The newest railway station in Britain opened on the 5th October 2023, at Headbolt Lane on Merseyside. This is where Northern services, and Merseyrail services now meet … and the Merseyrail section is all done by battery powered trains!
David’s Book is here : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Britains-Least-Stations-David-Brewer/dp/0993431607/
More here : https://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/train/new-trains/headbolt-lane/
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Found a 2015 Office of Rail and Road document which explains why Third Rail electrification will never be used to expand the network:
http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/17621/dc-electrification-policy-statement.pdf
8 57 Says it all.
New Stations are not good for STATION BINGO.
Allotments!!!
Tower Hill is the name of the estate in Kirkby – the same as Northwood
Everything in Headbolt station is yellow because MerseyTravel own the station and yellow is their brand colour👍
Platform Two isn’t in use for public because the Third Wire isn’t live
Auto generated subtitles are brilliant. I know this is The North and they're well 'ard but it's titled "headbut lane"
Eugh Unisex. Not A fan.
On the subject of station names, there is the ridiculous "Sandwell & Dudley" (SAD), which stands between West Bromwich and Oldbury. Named Oldbury in 1852 when it opened, it acquired the silly name in May 1984 when it was rebuilt. "Sandwell", apart from being a valley in the borough, is not really a place, and the station is not near Dudley – in fact Dudley Port station is nearer, though that is between Tipton and Great Bridge.
Who comes up with the unique station names?
Typical muck up with the ticket machine! How long has the company known about the station being built?? And these fools want to bin ticket offices!!
I love the joke that it's spelt "Head", pronounced "Ead", but on the train the abbreviation uses only "H" – the letter that's not pronounced!
Most enjoyed watching , We Have the Saveaway put on a walrus card or Metro Card, and its £6, all Zone and £4.60 1 area, will that be going up in Jan 2024 for all?, in Scotland when we lived in Kilwinning, they had a day tripper at £21.00 and covered Barrhill to Ardlui inculing Glasgows Underground , would be good to find out how much it is now?…
'Appen it's 'Eadbolt!
the new merseyrail trains make for such a nicer ride. so smooth and quiet, and air conditioning too. with some nice little extra touches, like better luggage/bike/etc. storage – just a shame they are not rolled out on the line near me 😢
David is a lovely chap. He used to work on the station at Chorley. Always went along to have a chat about his travels and where he had been 🙂
There is a Croydon Tramlink station called Avenue Lane, which is on Avenue Lane..,.
Does that count as a disused station video aswell.
Can you please explain the logic of spliting the line when logical you could have a through service??
Reminds me of when the Glasgow North Electric line was extended by a mile from Airdrie station to the eastern side of Airdrie which they called Drumgelloch (fair enough, that's the part of town it was in) rather than "Airdrie East". The result being that as only two of the four trains an hour to Airdrie were extended to the new terminus, people for intermediate stations who always caught the Airdrie train didn't board those going to Drumgelloch. The solution? Leave the automated announcements as "The next train is for Airdrie" and have a manual announcement reminding passengers "this train also calls at Drumgelloch".
Good lord you are so irritating with your delivery.
Probably the last new 😂station with the hyperinflation and the Drivers Executive wages 😂😂😂😂😂
The houses have been there for at least five years
Geoff, the Northumberland Line should be completed next year. I'm guessing you'll be travelling on that line once it's up and running?
Britain's railways are reduced to makeshift engineering – the OHLE couldn't reach Oxford or Bristol, now they couldn't extend the third rail a little way from Kirkby to Headbolt Lane. It's just embarrassing.
Haven't been to Wigan in ages (from Kirkby) but the last few times I did, Platform 3 was the Kirkby line which they used a pacer train for, which terminated at Wallgate using Plat 3.
When I travelled to Wigan Wallgate on that line a while later, the route no longer terminated at Wallgate and went on to Blackburn (I think), so Platform 3 wasn't used. They could still use it for services between Headbolt and Wallgate sometimes, I suppose, but I doubt they do.
Delighted. Cost???
Has someone spilled paint on your hair, Geoff?
Hilarious! Well done, this is very informative & funny too. Appreciate the posting, thanks for this 🚉 🚄 👏🏾 👏🏼😆 xXx
On the topic of stations not called where they are, we have the C2C's Southend East… In the town of Southchurch
plattform 3 is used as a terminus for the kirkby to wigan train, usually the last train of the day stops there overnight 🙂
I’m pretty sure they are running on AAA batteries 😝
Love seeing new stations with actual station buildings. Wonderful.
Tried the Manchester service from Athertonl station to Headbolt lane then on to Liverpool central. on the new class 777 train, both trains were ontime and we had a thouroughly enjoyable ride.
I'm not a railway enthusiast, so I need something explaining. Why does the track terminate at the new station forcing passengers to transfer to another train? Why are the tracks not connected, allowing trains to continue into (and out from) Liverpool?
Thanks
I wish I could swop with you Geoff you have such fun pc 😊
The Class 777 has provision for a pantograph so can go beyond Headbolt using batteries or overhead line equipment.
The noisy bit of the class 777s is when sat above the leading bogies. Quite rumble noise. Apart from that and constant breakdowns every time i am travelling on purpose from Manchester to travel on them, all sounds good. Thank you for sharing another interesting video.
YOU'RE IN THE NORTH AGAIN! THIS IS MOST IRREGULAR!
Is it my imagination, or do two lines meet here without being connected?
Nice modern railway station on the outskirts of Kirkby. Merseyrail have done a great job on reopening stations and ordering the Class 777 dual voltage trains with batteries to operate on existing lines that is impossible to electrify with DC 750v 3rd Rail. Or impossible to electrify with AC 25,000 OHL.
Headbolt Lane railway station in Merseyside is actually the closest railway station to Liverpool's (LFC) new training complex aka the AXA Training Centre in Kirby.
Why not have the northern services use the other platform Instead of building a 3rd platform?
Am still yet to visit headbolt, I still remember having to terminate at Kirby, at least the connecting path here is a lot wider making it easier to fit through crowds