Tarbock Island Or Halewood South Station?
This document on the Merseytravel web site is their plan of what they would like to do in the future and when it talks about new stations on the Lines between Liverpool and Manchester, it always talks about a station at Tarbock Island or Halewood South.
I suspect the main purpose is to create a Parkway station, soi that cars and their passengewrs can come into the City using the rail system rather than their vehicles.
Tarbock Island Station
This Google Map shows the are around Tarbock Island, where the M62 Motorway from the East meets the Liverpool Orbital Motorway; the M57.
The Liverpool to Mainchester Railway is across the top of the map, with stations from West to East aqs follows.
There used to be a fourth station in the area. Huyton Quarry station which was possibly on a loop from the main line.
Looking at the map, it will be a difficult exercise to find space for a station to connect to the centre of Liverpool.
Halewood South Station
This Google Map shows the area around the bottom of the Knowsley Expressway.
There are two East-West rail lines and the A 562 from the Silver Jubilee Bridge over the Mersey.
Bridges Across The Mersey
This area is going to get very busy with road traffic, when the Mersey Gateway opens in late 2017.
But that bridge is going to have a toll, as will the existing crossing.
The issues surrounding the tolls are discussed in this article on the BBC, which was written before the 2015 General Election.
Conclusions
So would a Halewood South station be a good idea?
There are just so many issues.
And which of the two stations will be built?
Merseyrail has an interesting problem!
The Anonymous Widower 