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Originally Posted by Marre
Thanks, can see your point about not wasting cash on a tram network when it would be better spent expanding an already existing mass-transit system in Liverpool. Would say the same for Glasgow, Tyne & Wear and London aswell.
My concern for Liverpool is that despite all these planned developments (which look fantastic btw) there is nothing in regards to expanding Liverpool Lime Street station. It appears to be a very constricted station by surrounding structures.
I would therefore wonder how such a station could take a large increase in railway traffic and even 400 metre long High Speed trains should the CTRL/HS1 ever get extended to the North?
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All British cities have an amazing amount of abandoned rail infrastructure. Liverpool is different in that the place has major disused tunnels under the city centre. These tunnels can have stations cut into them serviving certain areas - something overground stations cannot, unless the lines run through the centre. Birkenhead in the past few years has had a new station cut into an underground tunnel.
Lime St station is underused. It can cope with far more trains than it does. Modern signalling can increase the throughput. Trains with long waits can back up to Edge Hill and wait there at the rail junction.