Chester
Change at Hamilton Square
Departures today
60
Monday to Saturday
Next train to LiverpoolTimetable
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--:--to Liverpool Central
Timetable times.
Departures
From New BrightonArrivals
Into New BrightonChanging trains
Live connections
Ellesmere Port
Change at Hamilton Square
West Kirby
Change at Birkenhead North
Lime Street, for trains across the country
Connections are worked out from live National Rail times, allowing 4 minutes to change at Hamilton Square and Birkenhead North, and 8 minutes between the Merseyrail platforms and the main station at Lime Street. Check before you travel.
Down the line
By the timetable
Coming in to New Brighton
Heading to Liverpool
Every New Brighton train runs under the Mersey, goes once round the Liverpool loop and comes straight back: 27 minutes out, 23 minutes home. Positions are worked out from the timetable, not tracked live. Fast-forward plays the day at 60 times speed, an hour a minute.
The Merseyrail network now
Modelled
New Brighton trains follow the timetable. Other trains are modelled from standard frequencies: every 15 minutes on most branches in the daytime, every 30 minutes in the evening, on Sundays and to Ellesmere Port. This shows how the network should look, not live tracking. Tap a station for its name.
Every week
392
Trains leave New Brighton
This hour
4
trains to Liverpool
To Liverpool Central
27min
23 minutes on the way back
First train today
05:53
Last 23:23, last one back 00:13
Passengers 2024-25
1.19m
Entries and exits, ORR
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road estimate of journeys starting or ending here: 1,192,234 in 2024-25, the 462nd busiest of 2,589 stations. Part of the jumps in 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2024-25 comes from changes in how the ORR counts Merseyside tickets.
The train: Class 777
Stadler METRO- Built by
- Stadler, in Switzerland and Poland
- Fleet
- 53 trains, 7 with batteries
- Seats
- 182, room for about 480
- Top speed
- 75 mph
- Power
- 750 volt third rail
- Boarding
- A step slides out at every door
- In service
- Since January 2023
- Owned by
- Liverpool City Region
Every Merseyrail train is now a Class 777, four carriages and 65 metres long. The last of the old 1970s trains ran on 28 November 2024. The battery trains run the last stretch from Kirkby to Headbolt Lane, which has no third rail.
Fares
Frozen until March 2027Single to Liverpool
£5.00
Return £5.20. One price at any time of day: Merseyrail has no off-peak returns, so a return costs 20p more than a single.
Tap & Go
singles from£2.60
Tap in and out with a contactless card, phone or watch. Off-peak days are capped at the Day Saver price, and each week is capped at the weekly Railpass price: £24.60 for New Brighton to Liverpool city centre.
Day Saver, all areas
£6.40
Unlimited Merseyrail travel off-peak, not 06:31 to 09:29 on weekdays. One area £4.80. Young person £3.20.
Saveaway, all areas
£6.80
Off-peak day on trains, buses and the Mersey Ferries river crossing. One area £5.10.
Merseyrail Railpass, 2 zones
a week£24.60
Covers New Brighton to Liverpool city centre at any time. £86.40 a month, £864 a year.
Family Day ticket
£14
Up to 2 adults and 3 children aged 5 to 15, off-peak on weekdays and all day at weekends.
Contactless always charges adult fares, so children and 16 to 18 year olds need a MetroCard. Forget to tap out and it costs £10.55. Contactless doesn't work to or from Chester. Prices checked 6 October 2026.
At the station
Managed by Merseyrail- Platform
- One island platform with two faces, 1 and 2, under the 1938 canopy
- Entrance
- Atherton Street, at the top of Victoria Road
- Staffed
- From 15 minutes before the first train to 15 minutes after the last
- Ticket office
- Monday to Saturday 05:38 to 00:28, Sunday 07:38 to 00:28
- Step-free
- Level access from the entrance to both platform faces
- Toilets
- Including an accessible toilet and baby changing
- Cycles
- 10 secure spaces and a 4-space rack
- Help points
- On each platform
The station's story
1888 to nowA seaside terminus built for day trippers, with a long concrete Art Deco canopy that still shelters the platform.
The canopy came with electrification in 1938 and matches the one at West Kirby. The station building is not on the National Heritage List, so nothing here is formally protected.
- 18882 January
The line opens from Bidston to a temporary terminus at Wallasey, today's Wallasey Grove Road.
- 188830 March
The line reaches New Brighton and the station opens as the end of the branch, built by the Seacombe, Hoylake and Deeside Railway under the Wirral Railway.
- 1891
Bass brewery's works outing from Burton upon Trent arrives on 13 special trains. It comes back four more times, with 17 trains in 1904.
- 1898
New Brighton Tower opens. At 567 feet it is the tallest building in Britain, and the railway brings the day visitors.
- 1923
The Wirral Railway becomes part of the LMS, and a daily through carriage runs from New Brighton to London Euston.
- 193814 March
Electric trains start running straight through to Liverpool under the Mersey. The Art Deco canopy dates from this rebuild.
- 1960
Diesel trains from Wrexham and Chester start running through to New Brighton. The direct Chester Northgate service ends in 1968.
- 196530 October
The goods yard closes.
- 1971
Regular diesel trains from Wrexham are cut back to Birkenhead North, and ferry sailings to New Brighton end.
- 19779 May
The Liverpool loop opens under the city centre, and New Brighton trains start running round it.
- 197825 October
The Queen formally opens the Merseyrail network.
- 1985
The last of the 1938 electric trains retire. The Class 507 and 508 trains take over.
- 2023
The new Stadler Class 777 trains arrive. By November 2024 every Merseyrail train is a 777.
- 2026
Friends of New Brighton Station forms to look after the station.