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Meols Cop railway station serves the Blowick suburb of the coastal town of Southport, Merseyside, England. The station has an island platform and is served by Northern Trains‘ Manchester Victoria/Manchester Piccadilly Southport via Wigan Wallgate branch services, on which it is the last stop before the terminus.

Meols Cop railway station opened on 1 November 1887, originally as part of the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway from to
In February 1911 a connection from the LS&PJR route to join the Wigan line at Pool Hey Junction was opened, which allowed trains from Wigan (and ) to Southport to serve the station and the third rail was lifted shortly afterwards. The station remained well served though, with over 20 trains calling in each direction in the May 1975 timetable and this frequency remained more or less unchanged for the next two decades. Sunday services however ceased in the mid 1980s and the station became unstaffed in 1990, subsequently losing its wooden buildings to demolition in March 2000 (replacement 'bus stop' style shelters being erected the following month).

This station is unmanned and only accessible via stairs. There is no disabled access at this station. The station is equipped with Dot matrix display departure and arrival screens on the platform for passenger information. A self service ticket machine has been installed on the island platform. Passengers must purchase tickets from this machine using a debit or credit card before boarding a train. Passengers wishing to pay by cash must use the ticket machine to gain a Promise to Pay notice for their journey so that they can pay the fare with the on board conductor or at the destination station. This route has penalty fares in operation so failure to produce a valid ticket or Promise to Pay notice can result in you paying twice the amount of the original fare or Twenty Pounds (whichever is greater).

There is a half hourly service in each direction to Southport and both Manchester stations on weekdays & Saturdays (alternately to Victoria and ). Most services continue beyond Victoria to , though the last eastbound train terminates at Wigan. Passengers for stations on the Atherton line need to change at Wigan, whilst those for Manchester Piccadilly and points south or east must change at Oxford Road. The station was closed on Sundays up until the December 2008 timetable change, but is now served hourly in each direction (eastbound to Blackburn via Victoria and Todmorden). Sundays see Meols Cop served by one train per hour to Manchester Victoria via and one train per hour to Southport. Passengers for Westhoughton and Bolton need to change at .

The station is voluntarily maintained by the Friends of Meols Cop Station group. The group looks after the station by tending the gardens and keeping the station clean and tidy.