Sandhills railway station
Sandhills 
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A Merseyrail Class 508 at the station in 2012.
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| Location | |
| Place | Kirkdale |
| Local authority | Liverpool |
| Coordinates | 53°25′48″N 2°59′30″W / 53.4300°N 2.9917°WCoordinates: 53°25′48″N 2°59′30″W / 53.4300°N 2.9917°W |
| Grid reference | SJ342930 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SDL |
| Managed by | Merseyrail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.501 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.472 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.250 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.324 million |
| 2015/16 |
1.321 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Merseytravel |
| Zone | C1 |
| History | |
| 1850 | Opened |
| 2007 | Closed for Refurbishment |
| 2008 | Reopened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Sandhills from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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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 Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway Company 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.
Passengers have to walk up a ramp to reach the ticket office, then through a subway and up ramps to reach the platform
Sandhills opened in 1850 as an intermediate station when the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway was extended from its previous terminal at Waterloo to Liverpool Exchange. It became part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR), on 14 June 1855. who took over from the (LCSR). The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922 and in turn was Grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Nationalisation followed in 1948 and in 1978 the station became part of the Merseyrail Network's Northern Line (operated by British Rail until privatised in 1995). The station had four wooden platforms until it was rationalised in 1973.
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