Lytham railway station

Lytham
General information
Location	Lytham St Annes, Fylde England
Coordinates	53°44′21″N 2°57′51″W / 53.7392°N 2.9643°W / 53.7392; -2.9643
Grid reference	SD364274
Managed by	Northern
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	LTM
Classification	DfT category F2
Key dates
6 April 1863	Opened as terminus
1 July 1874	Rebuilt as through station
Passengers
2019/20	111,144
2020/21	22,620
2021/22	96,258
2022/23	112,652
2023/24	119,932
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Lytham railway station serves the Lytham area within Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England, on the Blackpool South to Preston railway line.

The conurbation of Lytham St Annes is served by three stations: Lytham, Ansdell and Fairhaven (adjacent to the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club) and St Annes. Northern runs trains from here to Blackpool South and to Kirkham, Preston and Colne once an hour all week (including Sundays);^[1] these services are much less frequent than those to Blackpool North. Services are usually worked by Class 150 Diesel Multiple Units.

The road name Station Road attests to the fact that the original station was about 500 metres east of the present one; a fire station now stands on the spot. The present station in Ballam Road was opened in 1863 when the separate Blackpool and Lytham Railway opened. The Ballam road station was originally a terminus, until 1874 when it was rebuilt and the Blackpool line was extended to join the Kirkham line, at which time the Station Road station closed to passengers.

On 3 November 1924, an express passenger train was derailed due to a broken tyre on the locomotive. Fourteen people were killed.^[2] The station was host to five LMS caravans in 1935, eight from 1936 to 1938 and thirteen in 1939.^[3]

The station ceased to be staffed after the cut-backs of the 1960s and the station building became derelict. In 1986 it was restored and transformed into a public house, the Station Tavern. At around the same time, the derelict sidings area was flattened and turned into a long-stay car park.

As noted the station is now unstaffed and has only basic facilities (waiting shelters, cycle stand and bench seating). It has though been provided with a self-service ticket machine and PIS screen like other stations on the line. Train information can also be obtained from timetable posters and a payphone. Level access to the platform is available from the car park. A pub nearby named ‘The Station’ is well known to locals alike.^[4]

• Public transport in the Fylde

• Bairstow, Martin (2001). Railways of Blackpool and the Fylde. Martin Bairstow Publications. ISBN 1-871944-23-6.
• Welch, M.S. (2004) Lancashire Steam Finale, Runpast Publishing, Cheltenham, ISBN 1-870754-61-1, p. 29.

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• Train times and station information for Lytham railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Ansdell and Fairhaven		Northern Blackpool South Branch Line		Moss Side
	Historical railways
Ansdell and Fairhaven		Blackpool and Lytham Railway		Moss Side