Originally Posted by
skgogosfan
There supposedly is a dead-end tunnel going off the loop line somewhere around James Street,but I forget whether it was just used as a storage area during the loop's construction,or intended as a link to the Waterloo tunnel for some other scheme that never happened. The tunnel only closed a few years before the loop line started construction so presumably it was in decent nick at the time.
Dave.
Hi Dave, I remember reading about this and you're right, there is a dead end which is now used for storage but was intended to be another link to the Nothern Line ( Ithink). From what I can remember, it was abandoned as they decided there wouldn't have been enough demand to justify its construction.
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Its location? Well if you were to approach James Street up from the Mersey railway tunnel, Mann Island junction on the left takes trains to the James Street loop platform. However, after Mann Island junction, you can see a double track tunnel (dead end) on the right hand side and this would have first went South-East past the older James Street platforms and then continued on a curve north to connect to, what I presume would have been, the a Northern Link at some point. In the grand scheme of things it just didn't happen and it would have been some long and deep tunnel in order to do so.
Also, there is a spur south of Central Station but I am not 100% sure it was specifically intended to connect to a reopened Wapping Tunnel, although I do know there was a plan to connect electrified stations on the Liverpool to Manchester line to Liverpool Central and beyond via Wapping.
The spur at Central is now used as a reversing siding for stock interchanging between the Northern and Wirral lines.
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