The Anonymous Widower

Liverpool’s Cross City Underground Railway

Liverpool is unique outside London in that railways on two sides of the city are connected underneath the city with a tunnel. This the Northern line that links the north and south. To get to this line I took the loop of the Wirral line between Liverpool Lime Street and Central stations. I took these pictures as I changed trains.

The trains these days are Class 507, which date from the late 1970s and the slightly younger Class 508. However they have been refurbished and are not of the standard you would expect from an over thirty-year-old train. I’ve travelled on them several times in the last few years and I can’t remember being in a dirty train or one with bits hanging off.

I often decry railway engineering of the 1960s and 1970s, but Liverpool’s Underground lines seems to be something that British Rail got right.

Surprisingly, this was the first time that I have used the Northern line and quite frankly, I was impressed. It has the feel of the Northern City line, that I sometimes use near my home in London. But it is a bit more upmarket with refreshed trains and stations.

April 8, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Liverpool, Trains