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Rock Ferry became one of the terminals for the Merseyrail Wirral Line. In 1985 the line from Rock Ferry to Hooton was electrified and incorporated in the Wirral Line of Merseyrail, making Hooton a new terminus. [citation needed] Hooton is a junction station where the line to Helsby via Ellesmere Port branches off the main Chester line. The line ...
The railway opened in 1886 with four stations using steam locomotives hauling unheated wooden carriages; in the next six years the line was extended with the opening of three more stations. Using the first tunnel under the Mersey, the line is the world's oldest underground railway outside London. [1]
The History of Merseyrail dates back to the 19th century, with the original formation of the Mersey Railway and the Mersey Railway Tunnel, among the first underground railway tunnels. [13] The modern Merseyrail network was developed in the 1970s from lines that were previously owned by several different railway companies.
In the 1960s, during the planning for Merseyrail, this was developed into the Outer Rail Loop scheme: an electric rapid-transit passenger line circling the outer districts of the city by using a combination of newly electrified existing lines and a new link tunnel under the city centre joining together lines to the north and south of the city ...
The Wirral line has carried its present name since the opening of the Merseyrail network by Queen Elizabeth II on 25 October 1978, [11] during the British Rail period. The Wirral line is fully electrified with a DC third rail, [8] and has existed in its current form since May 1994 with the start of electric services to Ellesmere Port.
The line's original route was from Liverpool to Bury and later the most northern of the Liverpool to Manchester lines. [3] The line was split at Kirkby in 1977 with the western section forming a high frequency branch of the electrified Merseyrail Northern Line, also referred to as the Kirkby branch line.
Allowing unlimited travel on Merseyrail at weekends throughout January for £2 will help people get "around the Liverpool City Region without worrying about cost", the area's mayor has said.
This service continued until 17 April 1972, when Garston station closed [1] along with the line from Liverpool Central. In 1978, the former CLC route through Garston was partially reinstated as part of the electrified Northern Line of Merseyrail, and the station reopened on 2 January 1978 [1] as a single platform terminus for services from Kirkby.