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St Helens Junction railway station is a railway station serving St Helens, Merseyside, England. It is in Sutton, 3 miles south-west of St Helens town centre. The station is on the northern route of the Liverpool to Manchester Line, east of Liverpool Lime Street (on the former Liverpool and Manchester Railway). The station and all trains calling there are operated by Northern Rail. ==History== The station was first opened in 1833, following commencement of operations on the main Liverpool - Manchester railway and was named "Junction" because it was located at the junction of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with the former St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway branch to the present . That route which opened on 21 February 1833 closed to passengers in 1965 (and completely in 1989), but the name remains. The station originally had three platforms - two through lines and a bay platform on the northern side of the main building which mostly dealt with local services (this is now part of the station roadway approach and car park arrangements). To the west of the station on the south side of the line stood the London and North Western Railway tarpaulin factory, known locally as 'the sheeting sheds', access from Monastery Lane being provided by a footbridge known as 'the pudding bag bridge', a favourite location of trainspotters in the 1950s as the steam engines of westbound trains were being fired to climb the Sutton bank with its 2.5 km of 1 in 90 gradient. The lines through the station were due to be electrified by December 2014〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Electrification in the North )〕 but the work was finally completed in early March 2015, 3 months behind schedule.〔(First 319s run on Northern )''Railnews''; Retrieved 6 March 2015〕 Some long distance services to , and the North East that were lost when the Liverpool - York (and beyond) Transpennine trains that were diverted via Warrington Central and Manchester Piccadilly in 1989 may possibly be regained, although the current TransPennine Express Liverpool to Newcastle service passes through St. Helens Junction without calling (first stop is Manchester Victoria). Concern has been expressed that parking space at the station is inadequate given the present number of rail users. 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 Junction railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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