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Liverpool in North West England, is a major British city with significant road, rail, and ferry networks, in addition to an international airport and a well-known dock system. As with most other major UK cities, Liverpool's transport infrastructure is centred on its road and rail networks. Public transport services within the city are ...
Electric. Statistics. Route length. 90 miles (140 km) Liverpool Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Liverpool between 1898 and 1957. [1] At the peak of Britain’s first-generation tramways, it was possible to travel by tram all the way from Pier Head at Liverpool to the Pennines in Rochdale by tram. [2]
Liverpool Lime Street is a terminus railway station and the main station serving the city centre of Liverpool. Opened in August 1836, it is the oldest still-operating grand terminus mainline station in the world. [1] A branch of the West Coast Main Line from London Euston terminates at the station, as does the original Liverpool and Manchester ...
The Liverpool station group is a station group of four railway stations in Liverpool City Centre, England consisting of Lime Street, Central, James Street and Moorfields. The station group is printed on national rail tickets as Liverpool Stns and does not include the station of Liverpool South Parkway, [ 1] which is located south of the city ...
The government will commit to the Liverpool city region gaining the standards of public transport seen in London, with improved services, simpler fares and integrated ticketing. In partnership with constituent councils, the Combined Authority will develop a single set of taxi and private hire vehicle licensing standards across the entire city ...
The City Line (sometimes City Lines[ 2]) is the brand name used by Merseytravel on suburban rail services in the Liverpool City Region ( Merseyside and Halton) starting eastwards from the mainline platforms of Liverpool Lime Street railway station. [ 2][ 3] The term covers most of the Liverpool City Region sections of the Crewe–Liverpool line ...
Liverpool Central railway station in Liverpool, England, forms a central hub of the Merseyrail network, being on both the Northern Line and the Wirral Line. The station is located underground on two levels, below the site of a former mainline terminus. It is the busiest station in Liverpool, though considerably smaller than Lime Street station ...
The proposed Liverpool and Manchester Railway was to be one of the earliest land-based public transport systems not using animal traction power. Before then, public railways had been horse-drawn, including the Lake Lock Rail Road (1796), [13] Surrey Iron Railway (1801) and the Oystermouth Railway near Swansea (1807). [14]