[11] The station opened with the commencement of public passenger services on 3 January 1900 and was originally named St Helens.

[12] Overall, the station and goods facilities covered 8 acres (3.2 ha), however the passenger section only consisted of one platform with a somewhat rudimentary wooden canopy shelter (compared to the brick-built booking office).

It was originally intended to be double track, but due to difficulties in obtaining sufficient land and clearances plus rising costs, the viaduct was eventually forced to be completed as a single line structure.

[15] In 1987 this name was given to St Helens Shaw Street station on the Liverpool–Wigan line of the former London and North Western Railway.

[24][25][26][27] Nothing remains of the station; a wall section of the bridge at Standish Street is still in existence, as is the engine shed - however for many years this has been part of a factory building.

Sections of heavily overgrown viaduct abutments and piers further east still remain but as for the immediate station, goods yard, booking office, signal box, turntable and track, these are long since gone, having been replaced by a large car park, Police station, offices and court buildings.