Edge Hill railway station

In the bottom right corner of this sign, the old Northern logo has been covered with a white sticker

This is actually one of, if not the, oldest stations in the world! It was built for the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the current station was opened in 1836. It was refurbished by British Rail in 1979, and more recently tactile paving on the edge of platforms and customer information screens have been added. 

Despite its historical significance, it is a relatively quiet station and on Sundays there is no service at Edge Hill at all. All services that call at Edge Hill are run by Northern, mainly using classes 150, 156, 195 and 331. 

Some more railway signage autism for you here - this sign is very old and I enjoy it greatly, and the red part beneath did it at one point carry the warning not to trespass on the railway, with a fine of £200! The fine has since been increased to £1000. There is a lot of usage of Rail Alphabet on Edge Hill's signs, with the exception of the running-in boards. Those signs have the Merseyrail logo, as well as the old Northern logo which has been covered with a white sticker. 

I find that Edge Hill is an extremely convenient place for railway photography. The quietness of the station makes it useful for not being bothered, while its proximity to Lime Street means that all services into Lime Street pass through it, the curved nature of the station meaning that they have to pass through relatively slowly. Avanti West Coast, Transport for Wales, London Northwestern Railway, East Midlands Railway and Northern trains all pass through. 

The accessibility of the station is poor, with platforms 3 & 4 being completely inaccessible to wheelchair users, due to the subway beneath the tracks. Until recently, there was also no tactile paving at the platform edge, making the station potentially dangerous for the blind and partially sighted. 

A freight depot run by GB Railfreight is nearby to the station, and its freight wagons can be seen easily from platform 1.