[5] By 1895, nine trains per day each way were running on the route and the volume of traffic using the station had reached the level where one platform was no longer adequate (especially in the summer).

Outside the summer months though, Euston Road remained much quieter than its Midland neighbour and it was the obvious one to be closed when traffic to the resort began to decline from the mid-1950s onwards.

[4][6] This though would remain substantial to begin with - the 1959 summer Saturday timetable featured no less than 26 arrivals and 23 departures to destinations as varied as Glasgow Central, Windermere, Birmingham New Street, Manchester Exchange, Millom and Stockport.

[7] The following March would see it listed for closure in the Beeching Report and although it appeared in that summer's BR passenger timetable, the handful of scheduled excursions were in practice diverted to use Promenade instead.

The disused station buildings & platform were eventually demolished in the mid-1970s and the site redeveloped, but its goods shed survives in a builders' merchant's yard.