Wirral Closed Lines & Tunnels

[Waterways]

...and Birkenhead Park isn't close enough...

No it is not. The station has to be right into the complex to be a success, as they are in London's Docklands. Wirral Waters is to be at Vittoria Dock and East Float.

Having to make use of Edge Hill, as a semi-overflow, would mean that Lime Street is already at capacity.

It would not. It would mean Lime St can have a higher throughput and the region still only has one mainline station, of expensive stations elsewhere.

mainline stations will always be central Liverpool.

Hence, the area needs more mainline capacity. Wirral has a population of 310,000, larger than for instance Warrington, Preston, Coventry, Leicester, Newcastle, York, Southampton or Milton Keynes, yet doesn't have this facility, on home ground, since Birkenhead Woodside Station has gone.

Because the Wirral has a rapid-transit metro network, which they do not.



The Beeching plan in the early 1960's determined that all long distance routes to and from Merseyside will be be run from Lime Street Station. A new electric hybrid metro/commuter rail system, Merseyrail, would service Lime Street Station from all Merseyside. This entailed closing terminal stations: High Level Liverpool Central Station, Liverpool Exchange, Liverpool Riverside and Birkenhead Woodside.

The Loop and Link tunnels in Liverpool centre merged the separate local rail systems into one metro network. Two lines were created, the Northern Line and the Wirral Line. All this merging of different railways to give all access to Lime St gained Merseyside a rapid-transit metro system.

Why should 10% of the cost of travelling by train, to London or Scotland, have to be in crossing one mile of the Mersey?

Pricing is a different issue and the cost is too high. Those on the Liverpool side have to pay the same rates as well.