Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough on Merseyside in north west England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary.

Transport

There are three tunnels under the River Mersey: one railway tunnel, the Mersey Railway Tunnel, and two road tunnels, Queensway Tunnel and Kingsway Tunnel. There is also the Mersey Ferry, made famous by the song Ferry Cross the Mersey by Gerry and the Pacemakers. In fact the song is now played on the ferryboats themselves every time they prepare to dock at Liverpool.

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Tunnel - River Mersey - Mersey Railway Tunnel - Queensway Tunnel - Kingsway Tunnel - Mersey Ferry - Gerry and the Pacemakers

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In 2001, Speke Airport was renamed Liverpool John Lennon Airport, in honour of the late Beatle John Lennon. The airport's logo consists of a sketch that Lennon had drawn of himself, and the words "Above us only sky", lyrics from his song "Imagine". In 2002 716,000 passengers used the Port of Liverpool, with the Isle of Man and Ireland being the two most important passenger routes.

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Liverpool John Lennon Airport - John Lennon - Imagine - 2002 - Port of Liverpool - Isle of Man - Ireland

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Liverpool has a train system called Merseyrail, the sections in the city centre are mostly underground. The lines terminate at Southport, Ormskirk, Kirkby, Hunts Cross, Ellesmere Port, West Kirby, New Brighton and Chester. The inner loop from Edge Hill station to Kirkdale, no longer carries passenger services and Liverpool Overhead Railway has long since disappeared. Liverpool once possessed a very integrated transport system, until the deregulation of bus and rail services, and only now have there been plans to build a light rail system, Merseytram, the first since the city's tram system was dismantled in the 1950s.

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Train - Merseyrail - Southport - Ormskirk - Kirkby - Hunts Cross - Ellesmere Port - West Kirby - New Brighton - Chester - Edge Hill station - Kirkdale - Liverpool Overhead Railway - Light rail - Merseytram - Tram

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