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The City Line (sometimes City Lines [2]) is the brand name used by Merseytravel on commuter rail services connecting the Liverpool City Region (Merseyside and Halton) with Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Blackpool and Lancashire starting eastwards from the mainline platforms of Liverpool Lime Street railway station.
Trains on the Northern line and Wirral line cover the Liverpool City Region. The total route length of the two lines is 120.7 km (75.0 miles), [6] accommodating 67 stations. [6] The lines connect Liverpool city centre with cities and towns on the outer reaches of the city region, such as Southport, Chester and Ormskirk. Frequent intermediate ...
The Bus Services Act 2017 granted combined authorities such as the Liverpool City Region the ability to partially re-regulate their local bus services, permitting them to franchising services to commercial bus operators in a similar system to those operated by Transport for London. In November 2021, LCRA Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram announced ...
Merseytravel acts as the responsible authority for the planning and commissioning of local bus services in Liverpool and throughout the wider Merseyside area. [4] Currently, Arriva and Stagecoach provide the vast majority of local bus services within the city, with a number of smaller operators providing specific routes where there is a defined public need. [5]
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This line provides direct access from Liverpool's north and south to the city centre's shopping and business districts via two underground stations, Liverpool Central and Moorfields, both of which interchange with the Wirral Line's Loop Line. Liverpool Central's Northern Line underground station was originally the Mersey Railway terminus at ...
Liverpool Lime Street is Liverpool's principal railway station and is located, as the name denotes, on Lime Street opposite St Georges Hall. As Liverpool's main station, it is served by all of Liverpool's longer distance services and many local services; including Merseyrail's City [2] and Wirral [3] (via the lower level platform) lines.
The closure of the North Liverpool route left Hunts Cross to be served by the local service from Liverpool Lime Street to Warrington and Manchester. In 1983, Merseyrail's electrified Northern Line from Liverpool Central was extended to Hunts Cross from its previous terminus at Garston. One of the former Gateacre line platforms was reinstated as ...