Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
Liverpool-Manchester is being electrified ASAP, well the Manchester section first, and runs though St. Helens. Free electrification for Merseyrail.
Yes, it's maybe for 'free' if it runs through St. Helens but I understood it to be the Victoria Line via Huyton (from local press) but the traffic demand itself was for electrification to Manchester, not St. Helens.