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The railway tunnel and Queensway road tunnel connect central Liverpool with Birkenhead, while the Kingsway road tunnel runs to Wallasey. The road tunnels are owned and operated by Merseytravel, and have their own police force, the Mersey Tunnels Police. In 1967 it was announced that the "Mersey Tunnel Scheme" was now operational. [1]
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 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.
A single trip through the Kingsway and Queensway tunnels for most cars will go up by 20p to £2.30.
Mersey Railway; Mersey Tunnels; Monument to the Mersey Tunnel; Q. Queensway Tunnel This page was last edited on 9 January 2012, at 06:38 (UTC). Text is available ...
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]
Southern Portal, Hardham Tunnel. Harecastle Tunnel: Trent & Mersey Canal: 2,926 yards (2,676 m) [15] James Brindley/Thomas Telford: Staffordshire. Comprises parallel "Brindley" and "Telford" tunnels. (The length stated is for the Telford tunnel.) Northern end of Harecastle Tunnel.
Water Street entrance sign for James Street station from just after electrification of the Mersey Railway. Platform and tunnel layout in and around James Street station, including the original tunnel to Central station, which still exists. The station opened as the original Liverpool terminus of the Mersey Railway Tunnel in 1886. It is accessed ...