"be built, which would this time be closer to the city centre. Accordingly, during October 1833, the construction commenced on a purpose-built station at Lime Street in the city centre; the land was purchased from Liverpool Corporation for £9,000 (). The means of connecting the new station to L&MR's network came in the form of a twin-track tunnel, which had been constructed between Edge Hill and the site of the new Lime Street station a year prior to work being started on the station itself; during the construction effort, the tunnel was frequently used to transport building materials for the"
"Limehouse station Limehouse is a National Rail and connected Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station situated in Limehouse and is close to Stepney in London, England, United Kingdom. It is served by regional services operated by c2c to and from Fenchurch Street, and by light metro services provided by the DLR to and from Tower Gateway or Bank. On the main line, Limehouse is located from Fenchurch Street and the following station is West Ham; on the DLR it is between Shadwell and Westferry in Travelcard Zone 2. The station was opened by the Commercial Railway (later the London and Blackwall"
"Lime Street station in Liverpool's city centre via a 1.1 mile long tunnel. Many of the first public railways were built as local rail links operated by small private railway companies. With increasing rapidity, more and more lines were built, often with scant regard for their potential for traffic. The 1840s were by far the biggest decade for railway growth. In 1840, when the decade began, railway lines in Britain were few and scattered but, within ten years, a virtually complete network had been laid down and the vast majority of towns and villages had a rail connection and sometimes"
"at Liverpool Lime Street for the first stage of electrification of the West Coast Main Line. On 1 January 1962, electric services between Liverpool Lime Street and Crewe officially began. Re-signalling work from Liverpool to Weaver Junction was underway in 2016. Signal control will move to the Manchester rail operating centre removing five local signal boxes. The signal improvements will improve journey times on this section of track. Services along the full length of the line are operated by London Northwestern Railway and Virgin Trains, with East Midlands Trains, TransPennine Express and Northern operating between and Lime Street, a section"
"networks. The local rail network is managed and run by Merseyrail and provides links throughout Merseyside and beyond (see Local Travel below), while the national network, which is managed by Network Rail, provides Liverpool with connections to major towns and cities across the England. The city's primary mainline station is Lime Street station, which acts as a terminus for several lines into the city. Train services from Lime Street provide connections to numerous destinations, including London (in 2 hours 8 minutes with Pendolino trains), Birmingham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Manchester, Preston, Leeds, Scarborough, Sheffield, Nottingham and Norwich. In the south of"
"Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate. It is one of the busiest railway stations in London, serving as the terminus of the West Anglia Main Line to Cambridge, the busier Great Eastern Main Line to Norwich, local and regional commuter trains serving east London and destinations in the East of England, and the Stansted Express service to Stansted Airport. The station opened in 1874 as a replacement for Bishopsgate"
"Forever 21 store on Whitechapel, opposite largest Store & Spa in the world owned by handmade cosmetics company Lush. Liverpool Lime Street railway station is the mainline railway terminus in Liverpool city centre providing direct connections to many points in Great Britain. Liverpool is home a commuter rail network with four underground stations. Liverpool Central station and Moorfields station have platforms that serve both the Merseyrail Northern and Wirral Lines, while Lime Street underground and James Street station are located on the Wirral Line. The Lime Street mainline station also provides local services on the Merseyrail City Line. Over three"
"Lime Street, London Lime Street is a minor road in the City of London between Fenchurch Street to the south and Leadenhall Street to the north. Its name comes from the lime burners who once sold lime from there for use in construction. It is perhaps best known as the current home of the world's largest insurance market, Lloyd's of London, since its newest building was opened on the street in 1986. Opposite Lloyd's, the Willis Building is the global headquarters of insurance broker Willis. A 35-storey building has been proposed at 52-54 Lime Street, and upon approval and completion"
"Liverpool Lime Street and call at Liverpool South Parkway. The service runs half-hourly Monday to Saturday, and hourly on Sundays. Selected services use platform 3. Virgin Trains services do not normally serve the station. The platforms are not long enough to accommodate a 9 or 11 coach Pendolino train. However, platform 4 was temporarily extended in 2017 to permit Virgin services to use the station while Lime Street was closed for major engineering works in Autumn 2017 and Summer 2018. Bus services run from the station to Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Aigburth, Dingle, Mossley Hill and Liverpool City Centre. Services"
"Liverpool Street station in London and north to Ely and King's Lynn. These are operated by Class 379s or Class 317s. Waterbeach railway station Waterbeach railway station is on the Fen line in the east of England, serving the village of Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. It is measured from London Liverpool Street and from ; it is situated between and stations. Its three-letter station code is WBC. The station and most trains calling are operated by Great Northern, with limited peak services being operated by Greater Anglia. Waterbeach station is unstaffed, and has only basic waiting shelters on each of the two"
"38 minutes, including the change, compared with around 30 minutes from Lime Street to Manchester Piccadilly. However, for passengers who live near to the stations in the middle section of the line it may prove a quicker journey into Liverpool or Manchester. A further southerly route, using what was St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway and Warrington and Stockport Railway, connected Liverpool Lime Street with Manchester Oxford Road via Ditton Junction, Warrington Bank Quay (low level platforms) and Timperley. Part of this route is still used for coal and limestone traffic to Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, but east of Warrington"
"per hour to London Liverpool Street, one to , one to , one to and one along the branch line to . The services are operated by Greater Anglia. During peak times, service frequencies are increased and calling patterns may vary. Witham railway station Witham railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) in the East of England, serving the town of Witham, Essex. It is approximately half a mile to the north of the town centre and is down the line from London Liverpool Street. On the GEML Witham is situated between to the west and and"
"hour leaves Lime Street station destined for the capital, with the service increasing to two trains per hour during peak times. Other rail operators that provide services from Liverpool include West Midlands Trains, TransPennine Express and East Midlands Trains, who provide links to other major towns and cities in the UK, including but not limited to Birmingham, Leeds, Norwich, Nottingham, Sheffield and York. Historically, Liverpool had an extensive tram network, construction of which started in 1869 by the Liverpool Tramways Company; however, this was dismantled in the 1950s. Other railway lines, such as the Canada Dock Branch from Edge Hill"
"the station to have its tender refilled with water. Greater Anglia operates one train every two hours between Ipswich and Peterborough. CrossCountry operates three trains per day Monday-Saturday between Birmingham and Cambridge, of which two are extended beyond Cambridge to . East Midlands Trains operates a service to Liverpool Lime Street Monday-Saturday only. Whittlesea railway station Whittlesea railway station is on the Ely–Peterborough line in the east of England and serves the town of Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. ""Whittlesea"" is an older spelling of the town's name. It is measured from London Liverpool Street via and is situated between and stations. All"
"- Liverpool Lime Street service which departs Stafford normally every 30 mins during the weekdays. These are now operated by West Midlands Trains. At least one train a day in each direction between Birmingham New Street and Crewe is operated by Transport for Wales, usually the first and last trains of the day. Junctions 13 (Stafford South & Central) and 14 (Stafford North) of the M6 motorway provide access to the town, therefore the major cities of Birmingham and Manchester and beyond are easily reached. The A34 road runs through the centre of the town, linking it to Stone and"
"Lymington Town railway station Lymington Town railway station serves the town of Lymington in Hampshire, England. It is down the line from and is the only intermediate station on the Lymington Branch Line from Brockenhurst. Celebrations were held at Lymington Town (as well as at Brockenhurst) in 2008 to mark the 150th anniversary of the line. The station is managed by South Western Railway, which also operates all trains serving it. The Lymington Railway, running between Brockenhurst and Lymington was established in 1856 and opened to a temporary station at Lymington on 12 July 1858. A permanent station was opened"
"the to Birmingham route. There is no Sunday service. The station has benefitted from an on-site ticket machine since late October 2018, situated on the south side of the line (next to the line for trains in the direction of March and Peterborough). Manea railway station Manea railway station is on the Ely–Peterborough line in the east of England and serves the village of Manea, Cambridgeshire. It is measured from London Liverpool Street (via and ), and is situated between Ely and stations. In 1966, the Minister of Transport Barbara Castle refused British Rail's request to close the station, although"
"every 30 minutes to Ellesmere Port. At other times, trains operate every 30 minutes to each of the four destinations, giving a service every 5–10 minutes to Hamilton Square. These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs. Liverpool James Street railway station Liverpool James Street railway station (commonly shortened to James Street station) is a railway station located in the centre of Liverpool, England, situated on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network. James Street is an underground station with access to the platforms via lifts from the James Street booking hall. At"
"omitted Edge Hill, but all stopping services on the route now call there. December 2008 also marked the withdrawal of two relatively infrequent but notable services on this line: Liverpool–Wigan line The Liverpool–Wigan line is a railway line in the north-west of England, running between Liverpool Lime Street and Wigan North Western via St Helens Central station. The route from Liverpool, running east follows part of the northern section of the Liverpool–Manchester line up to Huyton Junction; where it branches north-eastwards, routing via Prescot and St Helens Central, then to Ince Moss Junction. Here, the line joins the West Coast"
"Limehouse railway station (1840-1926) Limehouse was a railway station in Limehouse, London, on the London and Blackwall Railway (LBR). It opened in July 1840 and was located at the junction of Bate Street and Three Colt Street, between Stepney station (which after several renamings is the current Limehouse station) and West India Docks station. It closed in May 1926, however the line continued to carry freight to the Isle of Dogs until the 1960s. The platforms at Limehouse were demolished soon after closure but the ground-level station buildings still survive to this day beneath the viaduct. In the 1980s the"
"busiest and most extensive in the country, covering 75 miles of track, with an average of 100,000 passenger journeys per weekday. It should be noted that local services on the City Line are operated by Northern rather than Merseyrail, although the line itself remains part of the Merseyrail network. Within the city centre the majority of the network is underground, with 4 city centre stations and over 6.5 miles of tunnels. Mainline rail services in Liverpool provide the city with links across England and are centred on Lime Street station in the city centre. The station, which is owned by"
"station onto the site. The station was designed by the architects John Cunningham, Arthur Holme, and John Foster Jr. During August 1836, Lime Street Station was officially opened to the public, although the construction process was not completed until the following year. This building was designed with four large gateways, two of which were intentionally nonfunctional. For its early operations, as a consequence of the steep incline uphill from Lime Street to Edge Hill, trains would be halted at Edge Hill and the locomotives detached from the trains; the practice of the era was for the passenger carriages to be"
"the DLR, meaning the bridge between the two sets of platforms has its own set of barriers. Limehouse is situated in London fare zone 2. The typical off-peak frequency of National Rail services is: The typical off-peak service frequency for the DLR is: London Buses routes 15, 115, 135 and the ""D"" prefix route D3 and night routes N15, N550 and N551 serve the station. Limehouse station Limehouse is a National Rail and connected Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station situated in Limehouse and is close to Stepney in London, England, United Kingdom. It is served by regional services operated by"
"responded to requests from the girls' families and erected a footbridge and installed locking gates at the foot crossing in 2007. The accident led to a complete review by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch of all pedestrian level crossings at stations. There is an hourly service every day in each direction between Cambridge and London Liverpool Street. At peak times, the service frequency increases in both directions. Elsenham railway station Elsenham railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the village of Elsenham in Essex, England. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated"
"and Liverpool Lime Street. Aslockton railway station Aslockton railway station serves the villages of Aslockton and Whatton in Nottinghamshire, England. The station is 10¾ miles (17 km) east of Nottingham on the Nottingham-Skegness Line. Passenger services from Aslockton started on 15 July 1850, when the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway opened its extension from Nottingham to Grantham. This was taken over by the Great Northern Railway. The station building designed by Thomas Chambers Hine was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1857. On 12 October 1868 a goods train which had departed Nottingham at 4.15 am split"
"Street Station passed into the ownership of the newly-formed London, Midland and Scottish (LMS) railway. The station played an early role in the development of mail trains, the Post Office first dispatched mail by train from Lime Street. Upon nationalisation of the railways during 1948, Lime Street Station became a part of the London Midland Region of British Railways. On 28 January 1948, a new signal box controlling movements in and around Lime Street was commissioned; this signal box would remain in use for almost 70 years, being one of the last lever frames boxes still in operation by the"
"Hulme End railway station Hulme End railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England. The station was the terminus of the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway which ran from where it made a connection with the standard gauge Waterhouses branch line of the North Staffordshire Railway. Opened in 1904, the station had a single platform and a small goods yard with two sidings laid out for the use of transporter wagons, with a section of standard gauge track at the end of each siding. The station was also the servicing and storage point for the line's locomotives"
"able to cope with the gradient. The current station dates from 1836 when the main city railway terminus was moved to Lime Street. The station retains its original buildings but is very quiet owing to the sheer lack of population or industry in the area. These buildings are the oldest in the world still open to the public at a working railway station. Formerly all trains stopped at Edge Hill at the entrance to the tunnel to Lime Street station, giving rise to ""getting off at Edge Hill"" as a euphemism for coitus interruptus. Edge Hill was the site of"
"trains from Liverpool Lime Street to Wigan North Western, Manchester Victoria and Warrington Bank Quay. Trains to and from Liverpool Lime Street are approximately every 15 minutes through most of the day. Electrically powered trains have been operating through then station since March 2015, using Class 319 EMUs. Diesel powered trains remain in use on Sundays for services to and from Blackpool North. About to the east of the station the abandoned North Liverpool Extension Line passes under the lines, which is currently part of the Trans Pennine Trail. The ticket office is located on the Liverpool-bound platform (platform 1)"
"been demolished and were replaced by basic waiting shelters. Digital display screens and timetable poster boards on each side provide train running information. Step-free access is provided only on the Wigan-bound platform. Monday to Saturday daytimes, there is a half-hourly service to northbound and Liverpool Lime Street southbound. Evenings there is an hourly service in each direction. From 10 December 2017 there has been an hourly service on Sundays, to northbound and Liverpool Lime Street southbound for the first time in many years. The station was opened on 1 December 1869 by the Lancashire Union Railway on their route between"
"London Liverpool Street. Mistley railway station Mistley railway station is on the Mayflower Line, a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the village of Mistley, Essex. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between to the west and to the east. Its three-letter station code is MIS. The station was opened by the Eastern Union Railway in 1854. It is currently managed by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving the station. Mistley was opened by the Eastern Union Railway in 1854 and the brick-built two-storey"
"all stations along the line between Liverpool Lime Street and . This 'stopping service' is supplemented by an additional all-stations service between Liverpool Lime Street and , which continues along the West Coast Main Line to . Between Earlestown and Manchester Piccadilly, there are additional hourly services operated by Arriva Trains Wales, which originate from via the North Wales Coast Line and . On Sundays there is one train per hour along the line, calling at all stations to Manchester Piccadilly except and . It is operated by Northern and continues to Manchester Airport. Northern is the dominant operator on"
"is available in Liverpool Street station. At various times, stations have been suggested for Chingford Hatch and Forest Road, Walthamstow. Chingford branch line The Chingford branch line is a railway line between Clapton Junction (just west of Clapton station) and Chingford station. Services currently operate between Liverpool Street station and Chingford. The branch is currently part of the Lea Valley Lines network. By the middle of the 19th century Walthamstow had a population of 5,000 people and was a rural retreat for London businessmen. The nearest railway station was at Lea Bridge and a horse bus service ran from Walthamstow"