Hooton railway station is situated in the south of the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, England. It lies on the Wirral Line 8 miles north of Chester and 9½ miles (15 km) south west of Liverpool Lime Street on the Merseyrail network, and is near the junction of the branch from the Chester line to Ellesmere Port.
The station is mid-way between Junction 5 of the M53 motorway and Willaston village. It provides a major park and ride facility for Birkenhead, Liverpool and Chester, being convenient of access from north east Wales by the A550. The station car park was remarked in early 2007 and now contains compliant blue badge parking spaces. Further work to provide a variable height counter and new cycle parking was carried out in 2007. Network Rail has installed a new footbridge to replace the original structure, the new one being DDA compliant with lifts to all platforms; due to have been completed in May 2011 it actually came into use at the end of January 2011, making Hooton the closest 'disabled friendly' station for all the stops on the Ellesmere Port branch and for stations towards Chester - although Capenhurst station offers level access to each platform separately from Capenhurst Lane. A new 'M to Go' shop opened at Hooton in the first week of March 2010. Improvements to the station also include fully accessible toilet facilities and a new waiting shelter on the Liverpool bound platform; in late summer 2012 the window openings in the new and previously windy overbridge were glazed.
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