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A Scottish study a few years back preferred the west route. This makes sense as HS2 may only be a line from London to Crewe and no more - they look at these possibilities. The legs from Birmingham to Leeds and from Crewe to Manchester (phase 2b) look like they may be shelved once construction...

The Mersey rail tunel is running at about 40% of capacity. So quite a lot of capacity. The existing Wrexham to Bidston service can be extended to Birkenhead North with no problems. It once did terminate there. Extending the terminating station may be pointless as battery trains come about...

Merseytravel have been suggesting for decades that the Wrexham to Bidston, Birkenhead line (Borderlands Line) to be integrated into Merseyrail running into the electrified 3rd rail underground sections in Birkenhead and Liverpool. The slow 27 miles long Borderlands Line to electrify is an...

Ed Balls has it right. HS3 has priority over HS2 HS2 only runs to the high-speed Crewe Hub. Liverpool and Manchester will be approx' 86 minutes from London using classic lines from Crewe. Chester, Stoke and even Shrewsbury can have HS2 train running to the stations from the hub. HS2...

Wigan spur, Heathrow spur and next the Manchester spur. All are quite needless.

The east route from Scotland is by far the best route. It gives Scotland access to many conurbations. That is Tyneside, Teeside, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Notts, Derby and Birmingham then London. From Leeds HS3 can take trains to Liverpool and Manchester. A Javelin service can also be in...

Only apart of it was done and the bottlenecks not sorted.

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636509-how-vision-and-cunning-unknown-american-changed-shape?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fpe%2Fed%2Fconquistadorofmetroland Yerkes was no pioneer, he was jumping on the urban railway bandwagon. "MetroLand" had nothing to do with Yerkes . That was the...

83% say No. H2UK is the better idea. HS2 only connects "four" cities directly, meaning the rest loose out. HSUK is HS2 and HS3 in one package. It is a high speed backbone that has classic line branches to existing cities. The backbone takes HS trains nearly all the way. All cites gain...

A line that does not make its running costs on ticket sales does not mean it is not economically viable. These lines create economic growth in the communities they serve. That growth is not taken into the figures.

No. I do not sit on the trackside.

It is used by Merseyrail diesel maintenance trains. As it is used it is easy to seriously start up the line again.

A station named Giro was to be on Merseyrail with the electrification of the North Mersey branch line.

The eastern section of the Outer Loop skirts Walton Hall Park. It is all mothballed trackbed and easy to reintroduce. The thousands of Norwegians who attend Liverpool FC games each homes match would benefit from a direct station at the airport and a direct station at the stadium. Charter planes...

Liverpool has port of call cruise ships that visit the city. The port now has start and stop cruises. These will increase greatly once the terminal facilities are in place. Cruise companies are looking at all types of cruises, weekend short Irish Sea cruises, short Scottish island cruises, round...