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Only because of taxpayers money and ensuring that all vital HMG depts are in the place. Your knowledge of this period is skant indeed. HMG cut one third of the Merseyrail network; work started and was stopped, then proceeded to build a new 30 odd station metro on dock wasteland in London; not...

Liverpool Waters will merge into the city centre. The centre is moving to the waterfront. Atlantic junction and the path to Canada Dock are protected against development. Freight is the best use of this short path. The Dock estate has to acquire more land and remove the Dock Road in the...

The LOR Dingle Tunnel was designed to extend further inland from Dingle station. If the station is to be reused the tram-trains may as well run to the surface after Dingle station and run south down Aigburth Rd. Any trams have to be tram-trains to merge into Merseyrail. Stand-alone tram...

A gripe is that cities other than London will be used as cheap back office staff for London Companies. They can do that now, but they want the boss to visit the office in a day. This will make an impact on the hotel industry in cities.

In the Olive mount Cutting they could have hung gantries from the sides of the cutting walls, as in the Lime St cutting. The posts on the trackbed through the Olive Mount Cutting will be used as an extra costs excuse not to run in further services to Liverpool, such high-speed rail.

Only at taxpayers expense. They have a transports network other UK cities can't even dream of. Thatcher was in charge from 79-80 when the city was a complete mess. Schipol was in a position to steal trade from Heathrow and Paris and Frankfurt were to finish off the financial sector. The docks...

Thanks. So the Liverpool to Wigan and Liverpool to Manchester lines should be full operational on electric in March - we hope. But with 4 electric train sets?

The CrossCountry (HS3) is to link up the North of England and hopefully North Wales. Instead of travelling hours between pretty close cities it will only take minutes. It links large economies that are close but oh so far. Because everything points to London. 400m trains will only be needed at...

FACT... 35 years ago the UK promoted London to be a world-class mega city. There is only NYC and London. They succeeded at the expense of all others. 35 years ago it looked like London would decline rapidly. The city was a mess. Large parts of the city were derelict. The place was littered with...

Nonsense. A man can board the train at the station throat to take one half into a platform for a few hundred metres. It could be done driverless for a few hundred meters moving at 2 mph. Full driverless trains move around the DLR network from station to station and also at full line speed and...

It is a simple very quick procedure taking a few minutes, not rocket science. As you say, stop the 400m train in the station throat, automatically unhitch the train, and both sections move into a platform. Camden you ooze with common sense. Computerised seating can put people where they should...

Camden, your logic is spot on, none of it makes sense. From one, three trains per hour were given to Manchester in a cludgy way to justify the unjustifiable - HS2 and a direct HS2 line into Manchester. All analysis is negative towards HS2. Few will gain for such an enormousness amount spent. But...

Can you tell us why this is stupid? Can you enlighten us.

Liverpool Waters and Wirral Waters need to have Merseyrail connections, whether direct tunnels into the say Liverpool Waters or more likely tram-trains. Otherwise they will fail. Tram-trains have been proposed for a number of new lines in Liverpool. Merseytravel have delayed their procurement of...

It is still a tram-train.

Correct markindurham. The volume of water coming in from the Irish Sea when running through the narrows speeds up in flow rate. This speeding up of the water keeps the narrows deep and clear of sand, hence why Liverpool is the only deep water port on that coast. The sand brought in from...

This may sound daft to those in the know, is the Liverpool to Wigan line being electrified now and scheduled to be operational at the same time as the Liverpool to Manchester line?

The map of the Waterloo Tunnel. The track needs to run over the Costco site to make a turn south. It is best any tram-trains run along the Dock Rd and into Liverpool Waters running over cheap concrete bridges across dock water spaces, as in London's Docklands. The cruise business is taking off...

Yes, I was right. The link states the North Mersey line was electrified in 1906 until 1956, 50 years. The Overhead Railway terminated at Aintree Sefton Arms for two years. The line was not profitable from Gladstone to Aintree. Probably because the LOR had to rent the lines from Gladstone Dock to...

It is not difficult or expensive finding an approach for HS2/HS3. It involves using existing approaches and spending HS2/HS3 money taking the local rail of these approaches by using exiting mothballed trackbed and tunnels and using tram-trains. Here are three...