Season 8, Episode 291 - Trains at Conway Park station

Описание: Another day in the Mersey and another stretch on another of the spurs of the Wirral Line, starting with, officially, the newest station on the Wirral Line in Conway Park

Conway Park is the newest station on the Wirral Line. In 1990, the Merseyside Development Corporation joined with British Rail and Merseyrail to study the cost of the new station. The station opened to the public on 22nd June 1998, after an official opening by Neil Kinnock on 24th April 1998. Conway Park is between Birkenhead Park and Hamilton Square stations, approached on either side by a tunnel built by the Mersey Railway in the 1880s. It was built by excavating a box downwards, opening out the roof of the tunnel, which is eighteen metres below ground level. The platforms are reached by stairs or lifts from the ticket office. The station was built in order to provide a station on the lines from New Brighton and West Kirby that was more convenient for the town centre of Birkenhead than either Birkenhead Park or Hamilton Square. Its name comes from the name of the redevelopment area on the north side of the town centre in which it is situated. The name has come under criticism as some regard it not to be particularly indicative of the station's location. When it was originally being planned, the station was known as Birkenhead Market. The platforms are protected by ticket barriers. The road which the station is situated on is Europa Boulevard. A cycle rack was built and opened inside the ticket hall in 2015

Nowadays, in this video, we see a variety of Merseyrail heading for either West Kirby, New Brighton and Liverpool Central

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