Improvements included updating the subway to provide better lighting, state-of-the-art CCTV and new seating areas.

[5] In the Liverpool-Manchester Line electrification scheme, Platform 3 was brought back into use in time for the December 2014 timetable change.

[6] Huyton is staffed and open for approximately 18 hours a day and has a booking office, a payphone and a vending machine.

In September 2019, brand new Class 331 units commenced operation on the semi-fast Liverpool to Blackpool service.

[12] A limited service to Manchester Victoria operates at peak times and in the early morning/late evening.

The hourly service that formerly ran to Warrington Bank Quay was suspended at the start of the pandemic and has never been reinstated.

[13] During modernisation and resignalling work at Lime Street in summer 2017 and again in June–July 2018, the station is a temporary terminus for trains in the evenings and weekends, with a replacement bus shuttle service to and from central Liverpool.