Cocker Bar railway station was located in what is still open country where Cocker Bar Road (B5248) crosses what is now the Ormskirk Branch Line.

[3] In August 1859 the ELR was amalgamated with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR),[4] and in October that year, the station at Midge Hall was opened.

[5] It was 23+1⁄4 miles (37.4 km) from Liverpool (Tithebarn Street), and replaced Cocker Bar.

There have been talks amongst the local community for the possible reopening of Midge Hall station, which was closed in 1961.

Cocker Bar's site is green field, on a locally well connected B road and near Wymott and Garth prisons.