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St Helens Central railway station (previously known as St. Helens Shaw Street) is a railway station serving the town of St Helens, Merseyside, England. It is on the Liverpool to Wigan Line from Liverpool Lime Street to Wigan North Western. The station and all trains calling at it are operated by Northern Rail. The station is on the Merseyrail City Line. The City Line is the name given to local rail routes out of Liverpool Lime Street station operated by companies other than Merseyrail. The City Line appears on maps of the Merseyrail network as red, and covers the Liverpool-Wigan Line. Although it is branded under the Merseyrail name, the routes are operated by Northern Rail on behalf of Merseytravel rather than by the Merseyrail franchise. No information has been revealed as to whether the line will be fully under the umbrella of the fully electrified Merseyrail network after the current overhead electrification of the line to Liverpool and Wigan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Electrification in the North )〕 ==History== The station, originally opened by the St Helens Canal and Railway as St Helens on 1 February 1858 to replace two earlier nearby 1833 and 1849 stations, was renamed St Helens Shaw Street in 1949. The station was completely rebuilt in 1961 to a design which included and advertised a significant amount of the local Pilkington Glass. It became St Helens Central in 1987 (the original GCR St Helens Central station situated on Corporation Street having been completely closed and demolished in the late nineteen-sixties). An accident occurred on 11 November 1988, when a train from to became derailed after it departed from St Helens Central at 23:15. Leaving the station, the driving cab struck a bridge abutment; the driver was killed and 16 passengers received minor injuries. In 2005, Merseytravel and Network Rail invited tenders for the reconstruction of the station, including a new station building, footbridge and lifts. The new station building and facilities were assembled just a few yards from the 1960s station building and is the third build on the same site. The project came in at a total estimated cost of £6 million, with the European Union contributing £1.7 million towards the total funding. The new footbridge was lifted into place in the early hours of 22 January 2007. Construction work was completed in the summer, with the new waiting rooms and footbridge opened to passengers on 19 September. The new station building was officially opened on 3 December 2007. 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「St Helens Central railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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