Sandhills railway station

Sandhills
Merseyrail Class 508 at Platform 1 in 2012
General information
Location	Kirkdale, Liverpool England
Coordinates	53°25′48″N 2°59′30″W / 53.4300°N 2.9917°W / 53.4300; -2.9917
Grid reference	SJ342930
Managed by	Merseyrail
Transit authority	Merseytravel
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SDL
Fare zone	C1
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1854	Opened as Liverpool North Docks
about 1855	Renamed North Docks
1857	Renamed Sandhills
By July 1881	Platforms relocated
1974	Station refurbished
2008	Station refurbished
Passengers
2018/19	1.088 million
2019/20	1.299 million
2020/21	0.342 million
Interchange	0.123 million
2021/22	0.815 million
Interchange	0.232 million
2022/23	0.779 million
Interchange	0.556 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Sandhills railway station is a railway station in Kirkdale, Liverpool, England, located to the north of the city centre on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. It was built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and now stands at the junction between the branch to Southport and the branch to Ormskirk and Kirkby.

The two platforms form a single island, overlooking the River Mersey on one side, and the former industrial area of Commercial Road on the other. It is also used by football fans heading for Liverpool F.C. and Everton F.C. matches: a bus service called Soccerbus runs between the station and the football stadiums on match-days only.^[1]

Previously passengers had to walk up a ramp to reach the ticket office, then through a subway and up ramps to reach the platform. Now the ramp remains, with alternate staircase. Leading to a lift directly into the Booking Office, accessing both sides of the island platforms.