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Upton
(1896 - )


Upton railway station serves the village of Upton and the Noctorum area of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula and the station is situated on the Borderlands Line

Upton station was opened to passengers on May 18 1896, with a booking office on the road bridge which spanned the two platforms. Staffing ended in April 1969, with the booking office removed during redevelopment of the station and expansion of the road bridge in the 1970s

Adjacent to the station there was a coal and goods yard with a cattle pen. From February 1965, the goods yard only handled coal and closed on April 28 1969. The site of the goods yard is occupied by a Co-operative supermarket

Each platform is surfaced to receive 4 carriages only and the station is unstaffed, but has platform CCTV. Each of the two platforms has a waiting shelter with seating. There is no payphone or booking office, but there are electronic departure and arrival screens for live information to passengers








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