Originally Posted by
Spike
Will they take the petrol station as well? when you come from Broadgeen the track runs right into the middle of Sainsbury's. It bends but no train can do that bend. So are Sainsbury's going to be told they have to move.
Mill lane. The houses back right onto the old track just after West Derby station. Will they not object to trains flashing past their windows?
Im sure there are more problems with the loop line.
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Then the cost. It wont be cheap.
The trackbed only has the access road on it, it does not run through the store. Sainsburys would be delighted to amend their store to get a nearby station.
Tesco built a supermarket over this track making a cut & cover tunnel to get a supermarket near a rail line:
On the eastbound curve at Hunts Cross there is a single floor building built. A cheapish CPO would take that removed. This curve would be handy to take trains to the airport across fields, branching off just after Halewood station.
The curve is in light-blue.
The houses would have known that the line is mothballed in the searches when buying. They take that chance. They would gain a metro link to the whole of Merseyside, improving their lifestyle and increasing the value of the house. Metros create economic growth. Modern trains are quiet to the old.
The Outer Loop was to be apart of the 1970s Merseyrail metro plan. The eastbound curve was not, so was not mothballed. It should be as it now it could give easy and swift access to the airport for large parts of east and north Liverpool and beyond. An attcraction for companies to setup
The greater good of the community/city is paramount.
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