Halewood railway station in south Liverpool and is in the Merseyside metropolitan borough of Knowsley, in the north west of England. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by Northern Rail.
Services are roughly hourly in each direction, towards Hunts Cross and Liverpool Lime Street to the west and towards Hough Green and Manchester Oxford Road in the east.
Halewood station is modern, having been opened in May 1988, built at a cost of £440,000. There is a ticket office at street level, with ramps leading to the platforms, which have brick shelters.
A station, closed in 1952, formerly existed some distance to the East.
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