Overpool is a stop on the Ellesmere Port branch of the Merseyrail Wirral Line in Cheshire between Ellesmere Port and Little Sutton.
Merseyrail 508 128 arrives at Overpool
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Merseyrail Wirral Line Ellesmere Port Branch)
Station code:
OVE
Opened:
1988
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by British Rail in 1988 to serve new housing developments [1] on the line from Hooton to Helsby. In 1994 the line from Hooton was electrified as far as Ellesmere Port and through services to Liverpool began.
Access to the platforms is via ramps from the road level bridge which crosses the railway lines. Overpool is one of a small number of Merseyrail stations which are unstaffed. There is a half-hourly service in each direction.
View down the platform, facilities are fairly basic
Platform shelter
Another platform view
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Chester to Birkenhead (Middleton Press, 2012) Fig. 98
