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Manchester Victoria station, the terminus for the northern Liverpool to Manchester route. Manchester Piccadilly station, the terminus of both the northern and southern Liverpool to Manchester route. There once were four direct railway routes between Liverpool and Manchester in the North West of England; only two remain, the two centre routes of ...
This is a route-map template for Liverpool–Manchester lines, a UK railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Map of built-up areas around Liverpool and Manchester. The cities of Liverpool and Manchester are about 35 miles (56 km) apart in North West England. Since the Industrial Revolution, there has been a consistent rivalry between the two cities based on economic and industrial competition. The two cities continue to be strong regional rivals in ...
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway [1] [2] [3] (L&MR) was the first inter-city railway in the world. [ 4 ] [ i ] It opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England. [ 4 ]
Under the IRP the existing lines to Warrington from Liverpool will be upgraded, using the southern Liverpool–Manchester line. Instead of building a dedicated high speed line to Leeds via Bradford the scaled back scheme will only provide dedicated high speed rail track from Manchester as far as Marsden, West Yorkshire , where the line will ...
A new set of high-speed long-distance services was introduced in 1966, launching British Rail's highly successful "Inter-City" brand [25] (the hyphen was later dropped) and offering journey times as London to Birmingham in 1 hour 35 minutes, and London to Manchester or Liverpool in 2 hours 40 minutes (and even 2 hours 30 minutes for the twice ...
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.
Map of south Liverpool with the Wapping Tunnel shown in red, ventilator towers represented by yellow dots 1833 view of the tunnel, lit by gas-lights Wapping or Edge Hill Tunnel in Liverpool , England, is a tunnel route from the Edge Hill junction in the east of the city to the Liverpool south end docks formerly used by trains on the Liverpool ...