Bootle Oriel Road (BOT)

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!
Merseyrail 508 15 arrives on a Liverpool bound service

Main station building

Footbridge

A Southport bound train arrives

[1] Jonathan Cadwallader & Martin Jenkins, Merseyside Electrics (Ian Allan, 2010) p. 19