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Liverpool Lime Street station. Mainline rail services in Liverpool provide the city with links across England and are centred on Lime Street station in the city centre. The station, which is owned by Network Rail, [15] is served by five train operating companies in addition to services provided by Merseyrail on the local network. [16]
The station at Liverpool Street (the street had been named after the Tory Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool in 1829) was to be built for the use of the GER and of the East London Railway on two levels, with the underground East London line around 37 ft (11 m) below this, and the GER tracks supported on brick arches.
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.
Merseyrail is a commuter rail network which serves Merseyside and adjacent areas of Cheshire and Lancashire in the North West of England.Merseyrail serves 69 stations, 67 of which it manages, [b] across two lines – the Northern line and the Wirral line.
Brunswick (original station) 1864 1874 Garston and Liverpool Railway: New station opened in 1998 on a different site Brunswick Dock: 1956 Liverpool Overhead Railway: Burton Point: 1899 1955 North Wales and Liverpool Railway: Butts Lane Halt: 1907 1938 Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway: Canada Dock: 1941 London and North Western ...
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 Northern line is one of two commuter rail routes operated by Merseyrail and centred on Merseyside, England, [5] the other being the Wirral line.The cross-city route runs from Hunts Cross in south Liverpool then (by way of an underground section through Liverpool's city centre) branches in the north to terminate at Southport, Headbolt Lane (both Merseyside) and Ormskirk ().
The expansion of Liverpool FC's Anfield stadium has led to repeated calls to open the line to passengers and the building of a station to serve the stadium and the Anfield area. [11] It was announced in December 2019 that Liverpool City Council had commissioned a feasibility study to see about reopening the Canada Dock Branch to passenger ...