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Story of Merseyrail, The 1978 Soft Cover
The Story of Merseyrail Published jointly by Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive and British Rail December 1978 Approx 20 pages
The new Merseyrail Underground maintains the tradition of a progressive transport policy which has been an important feature of Merseyside development for almost 150 years.
Even before the area began its rise to pre-eminence as Britain's most important West Coast port complex, it fostered an extensive canal network and had efficient stage coach links with Manchester, Chester and London. Public transport facilities expanded to match the area's rapid growth from the middle of the last century with rail and tramway systems which were copied by other large centres of industry and population.
In the last 30 years there have been significant changes and although Liverpool maintains its position as Britain's second largest port, Merseyside no longer looks to the sea as its principal source of commerce and employment.
New industrial developments have given the area a growing status as a diversified manufacturing centre. Following extensive war damage and a massive slum clearance programme many people moved from the crowded riverside areas to new housing estates, both municipal and privately developed, and to New Towns beyond the original urban boundaries.
This re-alignment of the industrial and social structure produced a situation on Merseyside which is becoming common in large urban areas, that of providing some means of transport, operating at high frequency, to carry large numbers of people between the places where they live and the places where they work.
In recognising this need, and in planning to provide for it, Merseyside was typically ahead of other areas in the country faced with similar
problems. By the time that the integration of public transport services was formally acknowledged as essential in large conurbations by the provisions of the 1968 Transport Act, Merseyside had already produced its own solution.
In conjunction with British Rail it proposed to extend the Mersey railway in a Loop under the City Centre, and provide an underground connection between terminal stations of the principal commuter routes into Liverpool.
Between 1972 and 1977 the railway lines between Liverpool, Southport and Ormskirk, and the Wirral were developed together with the routes to Garston and Kirkby, to form a rapid transit system designed to provide fast, comfortable and convenient travel for Merseyside commuters, which is capable of further extension.
It is now recognised in large cities throughout the world that an efficient, co-ordinated transport system is a pre-requisite for survival and prosperity. Merseyrail Underground provides the means to sustain future growth and will set the standard by which all other similar projects can be judged.
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