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The Mersey Tunnels connect the city of Liverpool with Wirral, under the River Mersey. There are three tunnels: the Mersey Railway Tunnel , opened 1886, and two road tunnels, the Queensway Tunnel , opened 1934 and the Kingsway Tunnel , opened 1971.
The Queensway Tunnel is a road tunnel under the River Mersey, in the north west of England, between Liverpool and Birkenhead. Locally, it is often referred to as the "Birkenhead Tunnel" or "old tunnel", to distinguish it from the newer Kingsway Tunnel (1971), which serves Wallasey and the M53 motorway traffic. At 2.13 miles (3.43 km) in length ...
The River Mersey (/ ... Part of the Mersey Railway, a rail tunnel between Birkenhead and ... The 1784 John Stockdale map shows the River Mersey extending to ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Mersey Railway Tunnel 1886 ... List of crossings of the River Mersey.
The Mersey Railway was the passenger railway connecting the communities of Liverpool, Birkenhead, England. It is currently a part of the Merseyrail network. It was extended further into the Wirral Peninsula, which lies on the opposite bank of the River Mersey to Liverpool. Both sides of the river were connected via the Mersey Railway Tunnel ...
A single trip through the Kingsway and Queensway tunnels for most cars will go up by 20p to £2.30.
The Kingsway Tunnel (or Wallasey Tunnel) is a toll road tunnel under the River Mersey between Liverpool and Wallasey. The 1.5 mi (2.4 km) tunnel carries the A59 . It was built because the Queensway Tunnel – which was built in the 1930s to carry vehicles between Birkenhead and Liverpool – was unable to cope with the rise in postwar traffic.
Merseytravel is responsible for the two road tunnels, Kingsway and Queensway, under the River Mersey and also controls the Mersey Tunnels Police. Merseyrail also runs through a railway tunnel under the river connecting central Liverpool and Birkenhead which was the first transport tunnel under the Mersey to be built, in the nineteenth century. [13]