Spital railway station, on the former main line from Birkenhead Woodside to London Paddington, is situated near Bebington on the Wirral Peninsula, England in the small suburb of Spital. The station is located on the Wirral Line operated by Merseyrail and there are frequent third rail electric train services to Liverpool, Chester and Ellesmere Port.

Spital
General information
Location	Spital, Wirral England
Coordinates	53.3400°N 2.9941°W / 53.3400; -2.9941
Grid reference	SJ338831
Managed by	Merseyrail
Transit authority	Merseytravel
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SPI
Fare zone	B1/B2
Classification	DfT category E
Passengers
2016/17	0.432 million
2017/18	0.419 million
2018/19	0.451 million
2019/20	0.483 million
2020/21	0.119 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Facilities

The station is staffed, during all opening hours, and has platform CCTV.[1] There is a payphone, a vending machine and a booking office. There are departure and arrival screens on the platforms for passenger information. Each of the two platforms has sheltered seating. The station has a car park, with 141 spaces, a cycle rack with 14 spaces, and a secure cycle locker with 30 spaces.[2][3] Access to the station booking office is straightforward. There is no easy access for passengers with wheelchairs or prams to the platforms, as this is by staircase only.[4]

Services

Trains run to Liverpool at a frequency of approximately every 10 minutes and a service to Chester every 15 minutes on weekdays and Saturdays until late evening when the service to each destination becomes half-hourly, as it is on Sundays. Additionally there is a half-hourly service to Ellesmere Port all day, every day.[5] Northbound trains operate via Hamilton Square station in Birkenhead and the Mersey Railway Tunnel to Liverpool. Southbound trains all proceed as far as Hooton, where the lines to Chester and Ellesmere Port divide. These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.

Gallery

• 
  Two footbridges beyond the northern end of the station.
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  A Class 508 arrives with a service to Hooton.
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  The platform furniture.
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  The station frontage.

References

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2012). Chester to Birkenhead. Middleton Press. figs. 52-55. ISBN 9781908174215. OCLC 811323335.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Spital railway station.

• Train times and station information for Spital railway station from National Rail
• Station information for Spital railway station from Merseyrail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Bromborough Rake towards Chester or Ellesmere Port		Merseyrail Wirral Line Ellesmere Port/Chester		Port Sunlight towards Liverpool Central
	Historical railways
Bromborough Line and station open		GWR & LNWR Chester and Birkenhead Railway		Port Sunlight Line and station open