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The Williamson Tunnels are a series of extensive subterranean excavations in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool, England.They are thought to have been created under the direction of tobacco merchant, landowner and philanthropist Joseph Williamson between 1810 and 1840.
A single track loop line was built between 1972 and 1977, and since 1977 trains from James Street have travelled round the loop calling at Moorfields, Liverpool Lime Street and a new platform at Liverpool Central before returning to James Street. [36] [37] The original two platforms at Liverpool Central were reused as part of the Northern Line.
St James railway station, which has been closed since 1917, is due to be reopened as Liverpool Baltic railway station, with construction starting in 2024.Serving the Baltic Triangle development in Toxteth, when opened, the station will be on the Merseyrail Northern Line between Liverpool Central and Brunswick railway station.
International Slavery Museum: 2007: Open, Phase 2 under development: Historical and contemporary aspects of slavery: Lady Lever Art Gallery: 1922: Open: Art: paintings, sculpture and furniture: Sudley House: 1944 [4] Open: Art, fashion: Museum of Liverpool: 2011: Open: Liverpool's social and cultural history. The museum follows the Museum of ...
The Mersey Railway, opened in 1886, incorporated the world's first tunnel under a tidal estuary [120] and the world's first deep-level underground stations (Liverpool James Street railway station). Liverpool was the first city outside London to be chosen to have an official Blue plaque and now has the largest number outside London [121]
The site was purchased in the late 1980s by Liverpool businessman Bill Davies, the former owner of Aintree Racecourse. The building was left largely empty until it was sold in two separate deals in 2006 and 2007. Shelbourne Asset Management bought the site in 2017 for £42m and sold it to its current owners, Ashtrom, for £68m in August 2019. [7]
Liverpool James Street (or simply James Street [1]) is a railway station located in the centre of Liverpool, England; it is situated on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network. James Street is an underground station, with access to the platforms via lifts from the booking hall.
Since 1977, Liverpool's needs for rapid transit and commuter rail have been served by the partially underground Merseyrail network, which was formed from local suburban lines and new tunnel formed into a network, using no former infrastructure of the Liverpool Overhead Railway. Share of the Liverpool Overhead Railway Company, issued 9 March 1897