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Ainsdale railway station serves the village of Ainsdale near Southport, England. The station is located on the Southport branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line. ==History== Ainsdale railway station opened in 1848 as an intermediate station on the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway. On 14 June 1855. It became part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR), which took over from the LCSR. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922 and in turn was Grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Nationalisation followed in 1948 and in 1978 the station became part of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line (operated by British Rail until privatised in 1995). In August 2009, electronic real-time passenger information screens were installed at a cost of £50,000, one located in the ticket office and one on the entrance of the Hunts Cross Platform. There are no real-time passenger information screens on the platforms itself however, unlike other Merseyrail stations. The station itself has benefited from £100,000 of improvements, both platforms have had their waiting shelters refurbished, with automatic doors added, as well as lighting, heating, CCTV, floor tiles and new seating. A New toilet building located on the Southport-bound platform was completed in May 2007.〔(Ainsdale Station Toilet )〕 Access is by request at the ticket office. New secure cycle storage facilities were installed inside two unused buildings at the station in July 2010. there is one located near each platform by the waiting rooms. In early June 2014 it was announced that the station would be among a small number of stations across the Merseyrail network that would undergo a £3.7m programme of improvements. The improvement plans for the station were revealed at a public meeting at the village church on 20 July 2015,and it includes new waiting rooms and a new ticket office, as well as better access to the platforms and car park.〔(Ainsdale Station Improvements )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ainsdale railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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