The_Engineer
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I don't have a map but the initial MALTS study for a Merseyrail system in the late 60s has a burrowing junction immediately south of the Northern Line Central Station that emerged at Edge Hill via the old disused tunnel on the north side of the station. An intermediate underground station was planned near to the University/Cathedrals but would have been quiet expensive to do. In the end the line was not built but the burrowing junction tunnels were provided off the Northern Line to allow the line to be built in future. I have heard little of doing this line since.There has been talk on here of diverting local trains underground. Despite being a regular of user of both the overground into Lime Street (or South Parkway yesterday (from London)) and the underground in Liverpool, I am really struggling to get my head around the proposed route from the main lines into the underground. Does anybody have a diagram or visual of some sort they could share on here? Even a good description would be helpful.
The idea of this line was to run an outer suburban service out to Broad Green and then split two ways - north and south - along the old Cheshire Lines trackbed. Southwards the line would have gone through Gatacre to Hunts Cross and so back to Liverpool. Northwards the line would have passed through Knotty Ash, Norris Green and back onto the Ormskirk or Kirkby lines at Walton, then into Liverpool. There was also the prospect of some local services such as to St Helens being diverted to run into these tunnels.
I think the junctions at Broad Green may have been stymied by the later building of the M62 extension......