Liverpool’s Underground Railway
Liverpool has its own Underground railway and I took the Wirral line from Liverpool Central station to get to Liverpool University’s veterinary campus at Leahurst.
Central station has recently been refurbished to a good standard. You do wonder if Manchester’s chaotic transport system would be better, if they’d tunnelled under the city, like they did in Liverpool.
Liverpool’s network has been talked about as a candidate for years and this section in Wikipedia, shows what could and might be done.
The Anonymous Widower 
Yes, indeed. It might even have been preferable to the tram system and would have been a plus in a city as large and spread out as Greater Manchester.
Nice pics of the Liverpool underground, by the way.
Comment by Janice Mermikli | March 9, 2013 |
I don’t know the geology, but one factor might be that the soil in Liverpool is easier to tunnel through than Manchester. You get this problem in South London, where tunnels were very difficult compared to the Nirth, so the Underground tended to not go south of the Thames. But in recent years, tunnelling techniques have imporoved, so we’ve had some tunnelled lines in the south.
Comment by AnonW | March 9, 2013 |