
Originally Posted by
scouseyuppie
All the proposed maglev schemes that are on the table involve a line approaching the city from the direction of Manchester. To use the mersey tunnel tram deck for this scheme would go against that as It would suggest the line would have to swing around Ellesmere port before heading up the wirral peninsula to the Birkenhead portal of the tunnel.
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Nice idea, but it is contradictory to plans to have the maglev travel between manchester and and Liverpool airports with a later extension to the respective city centre's.
It is for the future. Running on the Ship Canal wall the Maglev can split off to John Lennon and then across the Wirral to Wirral Waters and Liverpool centre.
Or off the Ship Canal wall at Runcorn, to John Lennon, out of John Lennon and up the middle of the estuary on a trestles - cheap to do with a Maglev using long rail spans between trestles - and a Maglev station on an artificial island over the Mersey rail tunnel and Merseyrail station cut into the tunnel beneath for access. The island could have tall tower on it too and some other attractions. Then the Maglev serves Liverpool, Birkenhead and John Lennon and Merseyrail give great transportation to all Merseyside.
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