Hightown

CRS Code	HTO
Collected date	30/06/13

Hightown station serves the village of Hightown between Formby and the urban sprawl around Liverpool. The road used to cross the line but the crossing has been closed so the stub of the road on the east side of the line serves as a small car park. The side of the station building on the eastern side of the line:

Detail of the pillar on the station building:

The footbridge snaking up to cross the line from next to the car parking area:

A view of platform 1 at Hightown:

On the footbridge, looking at the rear of the station building on platform 1:

These supports for a former canopy are visible on the rear of the station building:

From the footbridge, looking north along the line. The road bridge in the distance replaces the level crossing:

Looking south along the line:

On the other side of the line, looking back along the line of the old road level crossing:

Platform 2 has a simpler building:

Looking along platform 2:

On platform 2 looking north at the road bridge which crosses the northern end of the station:

Looking south along the platforms from the northern end of platform 2:

Looking north from tne end of platform 2:

All photographs are © Alexandra Lanes You may reproduce them anywhere for any purpose. Coastline maps are reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright 2001