Liverpool Central railway station

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Liverpool Central
The concourse
General information
Location	Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
Coordinates	53°24′16″N 2°58′47″W / 53.4045°N 2.9797°W / 53.4045; -2.9797
Grid reference	SJ349901
Managed by	Merseyrail
Transit authority	Merseytravel
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	LVC
Fare zone	C1
Classification	DfT category B
Key dates
2 March 1874	Opened (High Level)
11 January 1892	Opened (Low Level)
17 April 1972	Closed (High Level)
28 July 1975	Closed (Low Level)
9 May 1977	Reopened (Low Level)
23 April 2012	Closed (Low Level refurbishment)
25 August 2012	Partially reopened (concourse and Wirral line)
22 October 2012	Fully reopened
Passengers
2019/20	16.455 million
Interchange	0.649 million
2020/21	3.606 million
Interchange	0.172 million
2021/22	10.747 million
Interchange	0.391 million
2022/23	11.402 million
Interchange	0.537 million
2023/24	12.611 million
Interchange	0.600 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Liverpool Central railway station in Liverpool, England, forms a central hub of the Merseyrail network, being on both the Northern Line and the Wirral Line. The station is located underground on two levels, below the site of a former mainline terminus. It is the busiest station in Liverpool, though considerably smaller than Lime Street station, the mainline terminus, and the busiest station to operate solely on the Merseyrail network. The station is the busiest underground station outside London serving 40,000 people daily. The station in passengers per platform is the busiest underground railway station in the United Kingdom outside of London at 3,979,547 per platform per annum and coming tenth out of all stations outside the capital, underground or overground.^[1]

Liverpool Central is one of nine stations on the Merseyrail network to incorporate automatic ticket gates.^{[citation needed]} The main concourse is part of a shopping centre, and includes a closed subway link to the former Lewis's department store.