Earlestown railway station

Sometimes you have to blog about the most boring thing in the world otherwise your brain will dissolve itself, so today I am going to inform everyone (no-one) about Earlestown station. Although I just called it boring, due to its nearly unique (in the UK) triangular shape it is actually vaguely interesting. 

In this above image, a GB Railfreight class 66 locomotive is going through platform 2 at Earlestown. Platforms 1 and 2 are on the straight line of the triangle between Liverpool and Manchester. Platform 3 is on a curved section of track, now a single-track but originally double. This curve connects the Liverpool end of the line to a line leading to Warrington. Platforms 4 and 5 are also on a curve, connecting Warrington to Manchester. 

A disused platform can be seen across from platform 3.

Something that's interesting to me (and likely only to me!) is that this sign at Earlestown has a different version of the Merseyrail logo, with a different font for the "M". There is one other sign like this, by the entrance at platforms 4 and 5, but other than that all other station signs at Earlestown are like other Merseyrail signs. 

Transpennine Express trains travel through Earlestown at high speeds.

A station sign at Earlestown showing the services that call at different platforms.

Although the sign above implies that platform 3 gets frequent services to Warrington Bank Quay and Liverpool, in reality it only gets one passenger service a day, to Liverpool from Ellesmere Port via Warrington, and therefore there are no trains from Earlestown platform 3 to Warrington.

I hope you have found this dull blog post informative.