New Liverpool city station considered in 30-year plan

[timelesstable]

Merseytravel said the network would be 160% over capacity if improvements were not made

A new Liverpool city centre railway station is to be considered by the area's transport authority.

Merseytravel has revealed its plans for the rail network over the next 30 years, which includes "investigating the potential" for a new central stop.

Other moves include new rolling stock, electrifying lines and improving travel times and connections.

Councillor Liam Robinson, chairman of Merseytravel, said it needed to prepare for an increase in passengers.

He said: "We know that if we chose to do nothing in the next 30 years, most of our local network will be 160% over capacity, so to stand still really is not an option.

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[ianigsy]

A lot of the things in that article have been on Merseytravel's wish list for years- Town Meadow (on the West Kirby line) was first put forward in the 1980s and has always been dependent on property development in the area. The Merseyrail system is good- in fact for the 1970s positively visionary- but suffers from a lack of capacity in the Liverpool city centre stations in particular, such that any open-air event in the city needs station closures and crowd management measures.