Rice Lane is a stop on the Merseyrail Northern Line Kirkby Branch in Liverpool between Kirkdale and Fazakerley.
A Merseyrail Class 777 prepares to depart
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Merseyrail Northern Line Kirkby Branch)
Station code:
RIL
Opened:
1848
Platforms:
2
The station was opened as Preston Road in 1848 and is the first station on the Kirkby Branch, being just north of Walton Junction. The station was opened by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway on the railway's main line from Liverpool to Manchester [1]. The line was electrified in 1977. The station was renamed Rice Lane in 1984.
The station has a staffed ticket office. Access between the two platforms is a via a footbridge. Merseyrail trains between Kirkby and Liverpool Central call at Rice Lane at up to fifteen minute intervals during the day.
View down the line towards Liverpool
Merseyrail 507 002 arrives with a Liverpool bound service
Station view from the footbridge, the ticket office is to the right
Rice Lane footbridge
Merseyrail 507 003 departs for Kirkby
[1] Jonathan Cadwallader & Martin Jenkins, Merseyside Electrics (Ian Allan, 2010) p. 42
