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Liverpool
Lime Street is a Grade II listed railway interchange with a rich
heritage in the city that it serves. The station is the main long
distance terminus, services are provided by First North Western,
Virgin West Coast, Arriva Trains Northern, Central Trains and Wales
& Borders Trains.
Lime Street is also closely linked to the Merseyrail regional rail
system, which has direct services from the Liverpool loop to New
Brighton, West Kirby, Chester and Ellesmere Port.
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The
key long distance direct routes from Liverpool are to London, Birmingham,
Manchester and Leeds.
Virgin trains run a broadly hourly service to London Euston, taking
around 2 hours 40 minutes, (though do check for frequent track maintenance,
especially at weekends which can substantially delay trains).
There are about 3-4 trains an hour of one type or another taking around
an hour to Manchester during the day time.
Trans Pennine trains broadly run hourly to Leeds and York via Manchester.
At York you can interchange with the East Coast Line running up to
Newcastle and Edinburgh.
To interchange with the West Coast line up to Glasgow, local services
run to Preston, Wigan and Crewe. |
Regional
Rail Map
Region
Train Timetables
City
Centre Map With Stations |
Local
Rail Services
James Street, Central and Moorfields are other stations in the City
Centre area. Central is very close to Lime Street Station and James
Street is convenient for the Pier Head and Albert Dock.
There is a day ticket called Saveaway
that gives unlimited travel on bus and rail services in Liverpool.
Saveaway
Zones Map
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Fares
The fares on the rail network are very complex with a bewildering
array of promotional fares. Broadly the cheapest fares are those purchased
well in advance.
For overseas visitors there are no true e-tickets, but the cheaper
advance purchase tickets can be bought in advance and collected at
Liverpool Lime Street using special machines.
This is possible using 'The Trainline' online service, using the query
tool opposite. UK based travellers can have their tickets by mail
to UK addresses only.
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