Liverpool Lime Street to get an overhaul

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RE: Liverpool Lime Street to get an Overhall

(03/04/2015 08:00)wirralbus Wrote:  Looking at the slideshow , it looks like the the lengthening of what at present is Platform 2 would block anything into Platform 1 hence it being removed .

Judging by those diagrams the gap between the existing Platforms 3 & 4 looks narrower than the gap between the lengthened Platform 2 and Platform 1. I don't think that the extension of Platform 2 will render Platform 1 inaccessible to the shorter length trains that use it at present

If a point was positioned at the existing edge of Platform 2 then Platform 1 could be retained for use by 2-car or 3-car Northern franchise services. Platforms 3 & 4 are accessed via a point from a single access track - so I don't see why something similar couldn't be used to keep Platform 1 operational after the rebuild