Wirral Closed Lines & Tunnels

[EJP]

Mollington St is best used to connect Merseyrail to Wirral Waters. See:
http://www.liverpoolwiki.org/Extendi...sit_Merseyrail



To Crew? Mainline? All mainline in Merseyside runs from Lime St accessed via rapid-transit Merseyrail. Chester is accessed via Merseyrail.

Apologies for moving the thread OT... (Where else can we discuss this?)

Better to reinstate the dock branch track along Beaufort Road to Bidston. Else use the track at Bidston Dock-Birkenhead North, then join to the north side of East & West float. Which then gives Wirral Waters access from West Kirby, New Brighton, Deeside etc. Otherwise you'd be wasting town-central real estate & have Wirral Waters only inwards facing Liverpool, not with a railway facing the rest of Wirral! The Canning St. North-Mollington Link track would be better put to use for the Wirral Transport Museum. Also, will Lime Street be big enough, in the future, to serve the area as the only mainline inter-city terminus? If Wirral Waters is going to be big, then stick an inter-city rail terminus on the right (i.e. the left!) side of the river.


By the way, back on-topic, some more to add:
Seacombe & Poulton railway stations. The Kingsway tunnel cutting was originally the site of the railway line to Seacombe.
Bidston used to have a coal & goods yard, & more platforms, as well as an engine shed. Site of Birkenhead (Bidston) Shed
Upton used to have a coal yard on the Somerfield site.
West Kirby used to be a much bigger station, before the Hooton line was ripped up. The site of West Kirby Concourse connected Hooton through to Hoylake & also served as a goods yard.