Moorfields in Liverpool serves both the Merseyrail Wirral and Northern Lines. It is between Liverpool Central and Sandhills on the Northern Line, and Liverpool James Street and Liverpool Lime Street Low Level on the Wirral Line.
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| Merseyrail 777 009 departs for Liverpool Central |
| Information |
| Type: |
National Rail
(Merseyrail Northern & Wirral Lines) |
| Station code: |
MRF |
| Opened: |
1977 |
| Platforms: |
3 |
The station was opened in 1977 as the replacement for the closed terminus Liverpool Exchange [1]. The line was continued through Moorfields to Liverpool Central. The Wirral Loop platform, which is at a deeper level than the other platforms, did not open until a few months after the Northern Line platforms and shares the same grp (glass-reinforced polyester) cladding design as the other new stations on the loop [2].
Moorfields is the third busiest station on the Merseyrail network and the largest underground station. It is managed and served by Merseyrail.
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View down the platform
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This way for the Wirral Line
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Northern Line platform showing the grp cladding
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This way for the Northern Line!
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| Northern Line platform |
[1] Chris Heaps, BR Diary 1968-1977 (Ian Allan, 1988) p. 114[2] David Lawrence, British Rail Architecture 1948-97 (Crecy Publishing, 2018) p. 156
