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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 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.
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 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.
During the early history of the line extensive enlargement of the docks at Birkenhead was now being planned, and as there was crossover in directorships between the railway and maritime interests, the Chester and Birkenhead Railway proposed an extension, which became known as the Docks Extension Line, to a locality known as Bridge End.
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 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 ().
When the line was extended south towards Liverpool on 1 October 1850 a level crossing was installed at South Road and the engine shed was relocated to the east side of the line just north of South Road. [1] [8] The original station site became a goods and mineral depot, there was a goods shed and a five-ton crane.