Moreton is a stop on the West Kirby branch of the Merseyrail Wirral Line between Leasowe and Meols. The station is suffixed with Merseyside on information displays (though not on station signage) to avoid confusion with another Moreton station in Dorset!
Liverpool bound Merseyrail 508 120 waits at the station
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Merseyrail Wirral Line)
Station code:
MRT
Opened:
1866
Platforms:
2
Moreton was opened by the Hoylake Railway in 1866 on the line to Birkenhead Docks. The station was later part of the Wirral Railway and the Mersey Railway. Sidings for the local brickworks were added in 1903, the goods yard closing in 1963. The line through Moreton was electrified by the LMS in the late 1930s. The original wood and corrugated iron station buildings were replaced when the station was rebuilt in 1938 in the same concrete Art Deco style as other stations on the line [1].
Cadburys opened a factory making chocolate biscuits next to the station in the early 1950s [2], the factory had a siding which remained in use until 1971 [3]. A signal box used to be situated at the end of the platform next to the factory though was closed and demolished in 1994. Moreton is served by Merseyrail with trains at up to every fifteen minutes between West Kirby and Liverpool Central.
Merseyrail 507 011 departs the station
Station nameboard
Look down the platform
Platform shelter
Merseyrail 507 008 departs for West Kirby
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Birkenhead to West Kirby (Middleton Press, 2014) Fig. 39 [2] Ibid. Fig. 43 [3] Jonathan Cadwallader & Martin Jenkins, Merseyside Electrics (Ian Allan, 2010) p. 71
