Neston
General information
Location	Neston, Cheshire West and Chester England
Grid reference	SJ292777
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	NES
Classification	DfT category F2
Key dates
1896	Opened,[1] named as Neston & Parkgate
15 September 1952	Renamed as Neston North[2]
6 May 1968	Renamed as Neston
Passengers
2018/19	43,810
2019/20	42,554
2020/21	6,300
2021/22	24,074
2022/23	33,242
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Neston railway station serves the town of Neston, Cheshire, England. It is the southernmost station on the English part of the Borderlands Line before it reaches Wales. The station is 8¾ miles (14 km) south of Bidston.

History

There was once a substantial station building on the Bidston bound platform. This fell into disrepair in the late 1990s though, and was finally demolished when the station was modernised for Disability Discrimination Act compliancy in 2003.^{[citation needed]}

Future

Long standing plans to electrify the Borderlands Line have been put on hold due to the prohibitive cost of installing third rail electrification. This has led Merseytravel to look at other options for the line, including the possibility of overhead lines.^[3]

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and only 'bus shelter' type structures offer passengers any protection from the elements. Bus interchange is available from the stop on Ladies Walk adjacent the Bidston bound platform. This is also from where rail replacement services leave. The station has a small car park next to the Wrexham bound platform and a larger car park on the opposite side of the line, both owned and operated by the local council.^[4]

Services

The station is served by a train every 45 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes (dropping to two-hourly in the late evening and on bank holidays)^[5] southbound to Wrexham Central and northbound to Bidston for connections to Liverpool via the Wirral Line. Services are provided by Transport for Wales' fleet of Class 150 diesel multiple units.

On Sundays there are departures approximately every 90 minutes in each direction.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Hawarden Bridge or Shotton		Transport for Wales Borderlands Line		Heswall
	Historical railways
Burton Point		Great Central Railway North Wales and Liverpool Railway		Heswall