Hall Road opened in 1874 as an intermediate station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR),[1] at a request from Joseph Gardner, a local merchant.

Nationalisation followed in 1948 and in 1977 the station became part of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line (operated by British Rail until privatisation in 1995).

[3] Trains operate every 15 minutes throughout the day from Monday to Saturday to Southport to the north, and to Hunts Cross via Liverpool Central to the south.

On 27 July 1905, a Southport-bound express train collided at the station with an empty local service operating to Liverpool Exchange.

[6] An accident took place on 4 July 1977 when a Class 502 unit, working a service to Liverpool Central, ran into the rear of another train near the station.