In 2022/2023, Ainsdale had 920,626 entries and exits, making it the 490^th most used, out of 2,575 stations in Great Britain.
It ranked 334^th busiest (out of 997), with 975 scheduled services per week.
That's a daily average of 2522.26 passengers starting or ending their journey here and 18.16 passengers per service, giving it the 548^th (out of 1,659) passenger to service ratio.

Service sample data based on scheduled services during the first week of the May 22 timetable.

A detailed breakdown of passenger journeys between individual stations can be found in our origin/destination matrix pages.

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Notes

*VF = Vicki Feet: the unit of measurement for platform lengths, as used in the excellent All The Stations. Conversion rate: YouTube video
Data derived from Network Rail timetable planning rules 2025 (Jan 2024)

2008-09 PTE Urban Area Station
2019-20 The number of entries and exits distributed across stations in the Merseyside PTE area has increased 6% as a result of additional tickets being included in the dataset for 2019-20. Recovery from platform upgrade works in 2018-19.

Location: Ainsdale
CRS: ANS / NLC: 2350 / TIPLOC(S): AINSDAL
Station Facility Owner: Merseyrail
OS Grid Ref: 331100 412202
Constituency: Southport
Local Authority: Sefton
NR Region: North West
PTE: Merseyside
ELR: HXS3 14m 63ch
This station is part of the Merseyside PTE

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Top 5 jouneys from Ainsdale during 2022/2023:
•Southport (215,491 journeys)
•Liverpool Central (48,362 journeys)
•Formby (30,712 journeys)
•Birkdale (24,443 journeys)
•Freshfield (19,506 journeys)
Full reports can be created on our dedicataed ODM Pages.