The Merseyrail Wirral Line (Up West Kirby)
The Merseyrail Wirral Line (Up West Kirby) links 10 stations, with a top line speed of 60 mph.
See the Merseyrail Wirral Line (Up West Kirby) on the live map
The map draws the line on its own, names every station along it, and shows the trains running on it right now.
The line in numbers
| Track | about 8 miles, counting every running line |
|---|---|
| Stations | 10 |
| Top line speed | 60 mph |
| Passengers a year | 7.1 million entries and exits across its stations |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Hamilton Square1.7 million a year
- Birkenhead Park669,528 a year
- Birkenhead North944,022 a year
- Bidston301,450 a year
- Leasowe520,920 a year
- Moreton552,768 a year
- Meols414,164 a year
- Manor Road293,490 a year
- Hoylake470,456 a year
- West Kirby1.2 million a year
The busiest station on the line is Hamilton Square, 1.7 million entries and exits a year and 337th busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Borderlands Line, Merseyrail Wirral Line, Merseyrail Wirral Line (Down Chester), Merseyrail Wirral Line (Down West Kirby), Merseyrail Wirral Line (Loop), Merseyrail Wirral Line (Up Chester).
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.