Cressington Station

Okay, I love this train station. Absolutely love it. It’s picture perfect. (Which explains why I took so many photos.) And adorable. It was built in the 1800’s and it shows. In a good way.
It’s all leafy and pretty and even the whole area around the station is delightfully green and «oldy worldy.» You will see a lot of really pretty old houses in this area.
And there’s even a railway cat!

Cressington station is an attractive and Grade-​II listed railway station, situated on the Southport-Hunt’s Cross ‘Northern Line’ of Merseyrail. It serves the suburb of Grassendale, an area of grand Victorian houses and a Conservation Area in its own right, and has 120,000 passengers a year.
Opened in 1864 as Cressington & Grassendale by the Garston and Liverpool Railway, it was built in an attractive red-​brick chalet style, with the main building at road level, and platforms in the cutting below. The building extends down to the Hunt’s Cross platform, and also has an upper floor, originally staff accommodation.
Services initially terminated at Brunswick station, but from 1874 they went into the Liverpool Central terminus until its closure in 1972 (by which time the service was down to a handful of trains a day). It reopened in 1978 as part of the electrified service using the new north-​south tunnel through central Liverpool. This tunnel linked the networks north and south of the City Centre for the first time, via a rebuilt underground station at Liverpool Central and a new station at Moorfields.
Trains now operate at 15 minute intervals throughout week-​days and Saturdays on the Northern Line from Southport to Hunt’s Cross, and every 30 minutes on Sundays.