The Northern Line
The Northern Line links 12 stations, with a top line speed of 60 mph.
See the Northern Line 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 22 miles, counting every running line |
|---|---|
| Stations | 12 |
| Top line speed | 60 mph |
| Passengers a year | 13.5 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
- Bank Hall226,404 a year
- Bootle Oriel Road691,544 a year
- Bootle New Strand885,026 a year
- Seaforth & Litherland852,056 a year
- Waterloo1.5 million a year
- Blundellsands & Crosby1.6 million a year
- Hall Road383,818 a year
- Hightown297,352 a year
- Formby1.6 million a year
- Hillside641,590 a year
- Birkdale1.1 million a year
- Southport3.8 million a year
The busiest station on the line is Southport, 3.8 million entries and exits a year and 142nd busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Manchester to Southport Line, Merseyrail, Seaforth Container Terminal Branch.
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.