Transport for Wales Rail

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RE: Transport for Wales Rail
I think the Wrexham - Bidston services would need to use platform 3 at Birkenhead North as the west kirby/ new brighton services use platform 1 outbound and platform 2 inbound to liverpool.

The Wrexham service would likely have to terminate at platform 3, get a path to run on the liverpool bound track passed the crossover for platform 1 then run into platfofm 1 from where it would leave towards Bidston and on to Wrexham.

In respect of the new crossover being installed if the procedure above was not possible, it would probably have to be installed round by the straight section where merseyrail services pick up speed.

The only other option would require some wrong line running to where the west kirby & new brighton lines diverge off to their respective destinations and there is also a crossover that the merseyrail trains use when they run ecs to Birkenhead North to enter the depot tracks once the driver has changed ends to drive the merseyrail train into the depot, however, this could lead to operational issues so it would likely have to be the installation of a new crossover that would allow the Wrexham train to leave from platform 3 and once on the the liverpool bound track in the west kirby direction will then cross to the outbound track ( hope this all makes sense ) and on to Bidston and Wrexham.