How about the Cherry Lane line. Would do away with the away fans being escorted all the way down Kirkdale road and Scotland Road to Limey. You could even put a branch line in from what is already and extensively in place.
Ged, that is the Canada Dock Branch Line which is used for freight and the only line left into the docks. There is talk is introducing another, where from I don't know. Look at this: Extending Merseyrail
A branch off the Canada Dock Line using heavy-rail Merseyrail trains would be a long sweeping curve. Light-rail trains, like London's Docklands, can negotiate tight curves making extension to Merseyrail more suitable.
Light-rail trains can be strung together to long lengths and turn tight curves. Merseyrail rolling stock is due for replacement in around 4 years. Light or medium rail trains should be bought replacing the legacy and expensive to buy and run existing heavy-rail trains.
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It is possible to tunnel off Canada Dock Branch and up Utting Avenue using cut and cover tunnelling. This would be ideal and it maybe it could extend further and right into the unserved Scotland Rd districts and onto the Northern Line at a convenient point. There is enough open land between Stanley Park and the Loop, which would mean cheap cut and cover tunnelling at lot of the way and down the Kingsway approach Rd to the Northern Line.
Kirkby is easier to solve. Redirect the line to the stadium or re-locate the stadium to the line Best to relocate the line and get it nearer the centre of Kirkby. The line also goes to Wigan and onto Manchester.
The great thing about Kirkby is that specials can be run from Manchester direct to the stadium.
I prefer Walton Hall Park or Long Lane Industrial Estate for EFC. There is a disused tunnel from Kirkdale to the Rice Lane flyover. The tunnel is still run under the flyover junction as the lines were only lifted in 1975. Skirting the park the track beds of the old curves are still there - look at Google they are clear. This connects onto the outer loop line trackbed that goes to West Derby/Broad Green/Childwall/Gatacre/Hunts Cross/South Parkway. Merseyrail can then go back to the centre via Kirkdale and the other way onto South Parkway for the London line and the Manchester line. A station may be built at Rice Lane or anywhere in one of the tunnel cuttings.
Th red is the disused tunnel from Kirkdale station (bottom left) to the Rice Lane Flyover. An Everton stadium can be just over the junction in Walton Hall Park. The white dotted lines are the old trackbeds and lead off to bottom right is the outer loop line that goes to West Derby and then onto South Parkway. It can form a complete loop via the city centre.
The Outer Loop can branch onto the Kirkby line and an EFC stadium built at Long Lane Industrial estate as the council suggested. Two birds killed with one stone.
Courtesy of Multimap
The disused tunnel:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/s...n_on_the_hill/
The Outer Loop Line's Bridges are still in Place
There is no joined up thinking. All is there waiting for someone to think it all together. Merseyside has a high throughput rapid transit rail system,. No stadium should be be given planning permission unless they build as a part of the stadium, or just nearby, a Merseyrail station. It is madness not too!!!!!
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