In the industrial area of Ellesmere Port lies the oddity of the branch line from Helsby with the parliamentary services that calls at Ince & Elton, and Stanlow & Thornton just a few times per day.

So it was time to get up early - and with just enough winter morning daylight - and go and tick off this least used station.

Thanks to Karl for coming with me. The new station stats (for 2018-2019) are due out next month in December!

You can see the (old) ORR statistic for Station Usage are here: https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statist...