Bromborough is a stop on the Merseyrail Wirral Line's Chester and Ellesmere Port branches between Bromborough Rake and Eastham Rake.
Merseyrail 507 021 prepares to depart
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Merseyrail Wirral Line)
Station code:
BOM
Opened:
1841
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the Chester & Birkenhead Railway in 1841. Originally the railway through Bromborough had just two lines but this was doubled later on with a new island platform built between the middle two lines [1]. The station also had a goods yard which was closed in 1965. By the 1980s the line had been reduced back down to two tracks.
The line through Bromborough was electrified in 1985 which allowed for direct trains to Liverpool Central. Further electrification enabled through electric trains to Chester and Ellesmere Port in the early 1990s [2]. The station is managed by Merseytravel and served by Merseyrail. The station is in a cutting with stairways down to the platforms from a road-level station building.
This way to the exit, the former lines were to the left
View down the platform
Down to platform level
A train has just arrived
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Chester to Birkenhead (Middleton Press, 2012) Fig. 44 [2] Jonathan Cadwallader & Martin Jenkins, Merseyside Electrics (Ian Allan, 2010) p. 79
