Liverpool Central railway station
The concourse | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Liverpool, Merseyside, England | ||||
| Coordinates | 53°24′16″N 2°58′47″W / 53.4045°N 2.9797°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SJ349901 | ||||
| Managed by | Merseyrail | ||||
| Transit authority | Merseytravel | ||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | LVC | ||||
| Fare zone | C1 | ||||
| Classification | DfT category B | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 2 March 1874 | Opened (High Level) | ||||
| 11 January 1892 | Opened (Low Level) | ||||
| 17 April 1972 | Closed (High Level) | ||||
| 28 July 1975 | Closed (Low Level) | ||||
| 9 May 1977 | Reopened (Low Level) | ||||
| 23 April 2012 | Closed (Low Level refurbishment) | ||||
| 25 August 2012 | Partially reopened (concourse and Wirral line) | ||||
| 22 October 2012 | Fully reopened | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2020/21 | 3.606 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.172 million | ||||
| 2021/22 | 10.747 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.391 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 11.402 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.537 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 12.611 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.600 million | ||||
| 2024/25 | 14.820 million | ||||
| Interchange | 1.018 million | ||||
| |||||
| |||||
Liverpool Central railway station in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, forms a central hub of the Merseyrail network, being on both the Northern Line and the Wirral Line. The station is located underground on two levels, below the site of a former main line terminus.
It is the busiest station in the city, although considerably smaller than Liverpool Lime Street, the main line terminus, and the busiest station to operate solely on the Merseyrail network. It is the busiest underground station outside London, serving 40,000 people daily. The station in passengers per platform is the busiest underground railway station in the United Kingdom outside of London; at 3,979,547 passengers per platform per annum, it is tenth out of all stations outside the capital, underground or overground. The main concourse is part of a shopping centre and includes a closed subway link to the former Lewis's department store.