Whiston railway station
Whiston railway station serves the village of Whiston in Merseyside, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Trains. It lies on the electrified northern route of the Liverpool to Manchester Line, the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway 7+1⁄2 miles east of Liverpool Lime Street.Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Whiston, Knowsley, Merseyside, England, UK
- Also known as: “Whiston Railway Station”, “Whiston Station”, and “WHN”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Prescot railway station and Whiston Hospital.
Prescot railway station
Railway station
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Prescot railway station serves the town of Prescot, Merseyside, England. It is situated on the electrified Liverpool to Wigan Line. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Trains. Prescot railway station is situated 3,500 feet north of Whiston railway station.
Whiston Hospital
Hospital
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Whiston Hospital is an acute general hospital in Whiston, Merseyside, though its postal address places it in adjacent Prescot. The hospital is managed by Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Whiston Hospital is situated 3,500 feet northeast of Whiston railway station.
St Nicholas Church
Church
Photo: Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Nicholas Church is in Windy Arbour Road, Whiston, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool. The church was built in 1864–68 and designed by G. St Nicholas Church is situated 2,900 feet southwest of Whiston railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whiston and Prescot.
Whiston
Town
Photo: Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whiston is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. It is located 8 miles east of Liverpool. The population was 13,629 in 2001, increasing to 14,263 in 2011.
Prescot
Town
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Prescot is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. It lies about 8 miles to the east of Liverpool city centre.
Rainhill
Suburb
Photo: Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rainhill is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. The population at the 2011 census was 10,853. Historically part of Lancashire, Rainhill was a township in the ecclesiastical parish of Prescot and hundred of West Derby.
Whiston railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Whiston, Knowsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.41391° or 53° 24′ 50″ northLongitude
-2.79652° or 2° 47′ 48″ westElevation
174 feet (53 metres)Operator
Northern TrainsNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“WHN”Open location code
9C5VC673+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 255278185OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
6953876Wikidata ID
Q2459451
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Whiston railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Whiston”
- Dutch: “Station Whiston”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة وايستون”
- French: “gare de Whiston”
- French: “Whiston”
- Urdu: “ویسٹن ریلوے اسٹیشن”
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