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Little Sutton railway station

Railway station on the Ellesmere Port branch of the Wirral line in England

Summary

Railway station on the Ellesmere Port branch of the Wirral line in England

Field	Value
name	Little Sutton
symbol_location	gb
symbol	liverpool
image	Ellesmere_Port_service,_Little_Sutton_Railway_Station_(geograph_2987224).jpg
borough	Little Sutton, Cheshire, Cheshire West and Chester
country	England
coordinates
grid_name	Grid reference
grid_position
manager	Merseyrail
platforms	2
code	LTT
zone	G1
classification	DfT category F2
transit_authority	Merseytravel
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2020/21	passengers= 50,684}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2021/22	passengers= 0.118 million}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2022/23	passengers= 0.151 million}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2023/24	passengers= 0.171 million}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2024/25	passengers= 0.184 million}}
footnotes	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Little Sutton railway station serves the village of Little Sutton, near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. It is situated on the Hooton–Helsby line and is served by the Wirral Line which is part of the Merseyrail network. The station is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The station opened in 1863 as "Sutton" and was renamed Little Sutton in 1886. It became part of the Merseyrail network in 1994, when the branch from Hooton to Ellesmere Port was electrified by British Rail, and through train services to Liverpool via Birkenhead commenced.

Between the 2013/14 and 2019/20 periods, Little Sutton was the least-used station on the Merseyrail network. Since 2020/21 it is the second least-used station on the network.

Facilities

The station has platform CCTV. Each platform has a sheltered waiting area. There are electronic departure and arrival screens, on the platform, for passenger information. There is a payphone, next to the entrance, on platform 2. There is ramp access, to each platform, for passengers with wheelchairs or prams. However, cross-platform access, within the station, is by staircase only. Platform access has not been modernised to the standard of that at Hooton.

Little Sutton is one of four stations on the Merseyrail network that is Unstaffed, the others being Bache, Capenhurst and Overpool. Passengers purchase tickets from the Ticket Vending Machine located on the platform. This machine can issue tickets to any destination on the rail network. Passengers failing to purchase a ticket will be liable for a Penalty Fare if they board a Merseyrail service without obtaining a valid ticket. The station became part of the Merseyrail Penalty Fares Area on 15 June 2009.

Services

This station is served by trains bound for Liverpool Central and Ellesmere Port, with platform 1 serving Ellesmere Port bound services and platform 2 serving Liverpool bound services, and is classed by Merseyrail as part of the Ellesmere Port branch of the Wirral Line.

Services call at this station every thirty minutes or less, including Sundays.{{cite web |url-status=dead

Gallery

Image:508103 at Little Sutton (1).JPG|A Merseyrail Class 508 at the station, with a service to Liverpool Central. Image:Little Sutton railway station (4).JPG|The booking office, seen from the street. image:Little Sutton railway station (7).JPG|A platform view of the booking office. Image:Footbridge, Little Sutton Railway Station (geograph 2987212).jpg|The footbridge.

References

{{NHLE
"Estimates of station usage".
[http://www.merseyrail.org/plan-your-journey/stations/little-sutton.aspx Little Sutton train station facilities, Merseyrail], retrieved 30 January 2014
[http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/LTT/details.html Station Facilities for Little Sutton], retrieved 30 January 2014

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