Liverpool Lime Street railway station

Liverpool Lime Street ( LIV operational abbreviation ) is the main station of the British city of Liverpool. It is located on the same street in the city center and is the terminus of a branch of the West Coast Main Line. In operation 2004 /05 he was used by 13.535 million passengers. Liverpool Lime Street is one of 17 stations that are not managed by a railway company, but by the infrastructure company Network Rail.

The station is composed of two parts, an above-ground railway terminus and a through station with the adjacent St George's Hall. About the railhead spans a vast roof of iron and glass from the 1880s. Platforms 1-6 are slightly shorter than the platforms 7 to 9 The latter are mainly used for long-distance transport. The transit station is a single platform at Liverpool Loop, a single track tunnel under the center ring.

History

When in 1830 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened, the station was still at Liverpool Crown Street in the Edge Hill district. The construction of the Lime Street began in 1833 after the city government had acquired the land for 9000 pounds. 1832, ie before the construction of the station, there was a tunnel between Edge Hill and Lime Street. The new central station was finally opened in 1836, although the work was not completed until the following year.

Because of the steep gradient between Lime Street and Edge Hill, the trains stopped at first all in Edge Hill, where you abkoppelte the locomotives. Then the trains rolled down to Lime Street, monitored by brakemen. On the way back the wagons were hauled up on a rope from a stationary steam engine.

After only six years, the station had to be extended for the first time due to the sharp increase in traffic. The works were completed in 1849. Lime Street was one of the first stations, one of which was promoted from Post by rail. In the 1880s, the existing roof was today. Before the station was built in 1867 to designs by Alfred Waterhouse, the North Western Hotel, which is now used as student accommodation Liverpool John Moores University.

The electrification of the access routes followed in 1959, in 1977, the underground train station on the Liverpool Loop was opened.

Operation

Trains five different railway companies use the railhead. Virgin Trains operates hourly to London, while Northern Rail hourly offers connections to Manchester, Sheffield, in the East Midlands to East Anglia and Birmingham as well as suburban services. The TransPennine Express operates an hourly service to Manchester, Leeds and North East England.

The only railway company that uses the underground part of the station, Merseyrail, which runs numerous commuter lines under the Mersey through the Wirral Peninsula and Chester is.