Liverpool Lime Street (Main)

Liverpool Lime Street Station

Liverpool Lime Street station is a British railway station located on Lyme Street in the heart of Liverpool. It is Liverpool's largest and oldest station. The station is on the ground for 9 months, with a number of close routes to Manchester and Blackpool, as well as long-distance trains to London, Newcastle, Nottingham and Birmingham. Underground is the station platform of the Merseyside Railway.

Station Facilities

• First class lounge
• Taxi stand
• Service Desk
• washroom
• Luggage storage

Railway Service

• Virgin Train: London - Milton Keynes

• West Midlands Railway: London - Birmingham, Coventry, Northampton and Milton Keynes

• Trans Pennine Express: 1) Newcastle-Manchester Victoria, Leeds and York and Durham 2) Scarborough via Manchester Victoria, Leeds and York

• Northern Railway 1) Blackpool by Preston 2) Manchester Airport via Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Piccadilly

• East Midlands Railway: Norwich via Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester Piccadilly, Sheffield, Nottingham, Peterborough and Erie

City Tour

Liverpool Lime Street stands next to the Liverpool Walker Art Gallery and opposite St. George's Hall. The Walker Art Gallery, opened in 1877, is the largest art gallery outside of London and is also known as the national gallery of the North. The collection is famous for its medieval oil paintings, most notably the 16th century King Henry. Portrait of Henry VIII and portrait of Queen Elizabeth I.

St. George's Hall is considered to be one of the best preserved neoclassical buildings in the world. It is part of Liverpool's World Heritage Site and is listed as a Grade I listed building by the National Heritage List of England. In the past, the St. George's Hall was the center of the city, where concert halls and courts were located. After the renovation, it was reopened in 2007 and many event exhibitions are held here.

Leeds

Introduction

Leeds Station is a main railway station serving Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, England. As of 2016, this station is the third busiest station outside the London area. The station is located at the new station street south of the city square, at the back of the park road, behind the landmark Queens Hotel. The station is one of the 19 stations managed by the British National Railways.

Leeds is an important hub in the UK rail network. This station is the terminus of the East Coast main line Leeds branch line, providing high-speed intercity rail service to London. It is also an important stopover between the Scottish, Central and South West England railway lines connecting Birmingham and Glasgow. Major cities such as Edinburgh, Beatby, Nottingham, Redding, Bristol, Axal, Plymouth, Penzance. The station also offers regular intercity rail services to major cities in North England including Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle and Sheffield. In addition, this station is also the terminus of the beautiful Settle-Carlisle Railway. Future stations will be expanded to connect to the No. 2 high-speed railway under construction.

Leeds is a local and regional railway hub in the Yorkshire region, connecting major cities such as York, Scarborough, Houcheng, Doncaster and Sheffield. This station is the center of the West Yorkshire Metro commuter rail system, providing rail services to Baraford, Wakefield, Desbury, Huddersfield and Halifax.

With a passenger volume of approximately 23 million passengers between April 2014 and March 2015, it is the busiest station in North England and the third busiest station outside London, second only to Birmingham New Street and Central Glasgow. .

Platform

Station 1 -6: This part of the station is the terminal and therefore at the same height as the main hall, although stations 3 and 4 are far from the ticket gate. The "C" portion of these platforms is closest to the lobby, but Part A is furthest from the ticket gate.

These five northern trains usually use this part of the station: (1) Round-trip Bradford, including trains from Bradford to Manchester via the Hebden Bridge (2) Wharfedale train to and from Ilkley (3) Express trains to and from Skipton via Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and Saltaire to Saltaire Mills (4) Harrogate Line Train (5) Trains to Carlisle along the spectacular routes of Hellifield and Settle (6) Trains to Lancaster via Hellifield and Carnforth

Stations 7 and 8: The platform 8 is on the right side of the ticket gate line, and the platform 7 next to the main hall is at its far end, so that the trains using these stations are accessible. LNER trains to and from London usually use platform 8.

Platform 9 -17: The main feature of the Leeds station is a huge bridge that connects these platforms to the ticket gate through the main hall.

The hall and each platform are connected to the bridge via escalators and lifts (elevators) and there are stairs.

Long-distance trains using these platforms include: (i) Cross-country trains to multiple destinations including Birmingham, Bristol, Derby, Edinburgh, Durham, Newcastle. Sheffield and York (ii) Trans Pennine Express trains can reach multiple destinations including Durham, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Scarborough and York.

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500. Its metropolitan area is the fifth-largest in the UK, with a population of 2.24 million in 2011. The local authority is Liverpool City Council, the most populous local government district in the metropolitan county of Merseyside and the largest in the Liverpool City Region. Liverpool is on the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, and historically lay within the ancient hundred of West Derby in the southwest of the county of Lancashire. It became a borough in 1207 and a city in 1880. In 1889, it became a county borough independent of Lancashire. Its growth as a major port was paralleled by the expansion of the city throughout the Industrial Revolution. Along with handling general cargo, freight, and raw materials such as coal and cotton, the city merchants were involved in the Atlantic slave trade. In the 19th century, it was a major port of departure for Irish and English emigrants to North America. Liverpool was home to both the Cunard and White Star Line, and was the port of registry of the ocean liner RMS Titanic, the RMS Lusitania, RMS Queen Mary, and RMS Olympic. Liverpool is noted for its culture, architecture, and transport links. It is closely associated with the arts, particularly music; the popularity of the Beatles, who are regarded as the most influential band in history, contributed to the city's status as a tourist destination. Since then, the city has continued to produce hundreds of notable musical acts—musicians from Liverpool have produced 56 No. 1 singles, more than any other city in the world. Liverpool also has a long-standing reputation as the origin of countless actors and actresses, artists, comedians, journalists, novelists, poets, and sportspeople. The city has the second-highest number of art galleries, national museums, and listed buildings in the United Kingdom, with only London having more. In sports, it is best known for being the home of Premier League football clubs Liverpool and Everton; matches between the two are known as the Merseyside derby. The Grand National horse race takes place annually at Aintree Racecourse. Several areas of the city centre were granted World Heritage Site status by UNESCO in 2004. The city celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2007, and was named the 2008 European Capital of Culture together with the Norwegian city of Stavanger. The Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City includes the Pier Head, Albert Dock, and William Brown Street. Liverpool's status as a port city has attracted a diverse population, which was historically drawn from a wide range of cultures and religions, particularly from Ireland and Wales. The city is also home to the oldest black community in the UK and the oldest Chinese community in Europe. Natives and residents of the city of Liverpool are referred to formally as Liverpudlians, but most often as Scousers, a reference to "scouse", a form of stew. The word "Scouse" has also become synonymous with the Liverpool accent and dialect.

Leeds is a city in the United Kingdom, located in the county of West Yorkshire in Northern England, approximately 170 miles north of central London. Leeds has one of the most diverse economies of all the UK's main employment centres and has seen the fastest rate of private-sector jobs growth of any UK city. It also has the highest ratio of private to public sector jobs of all the UK's Core Cities, with 77% of its workforce working in the private sector. Leeds has the third-largest jobs total by local authority area, with 480,000 in employment and self-employment at the beginning of 2015. Leeds is ranked as a High Sufficiency level city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial heart of the West Yorkshire Urban Area. Leeds is served by five universities, and has the fourth largest student population in the country and the country's fourth largest urban economy.Leeds was a small manorial borough in the 13th century, and in the 17th and 18th centuries it became a major centre for the production and trading of wool, and in the Industrial Revolution a major mill town; wool was still the dominant industry, but flax, engineering, iron foundries, printing, and other industries were also important. From being a market town in the valley of the River Aire in the 16th century, Leeds expanded and absorbed the surrounding villages to become a populous urban centre by the mid-20th century. It now lies within the West Yorkshire Urban Area, the United Kingdom's fourth-most populous urban area, with a population of 2.6 million.Today, Leeds has become the largest legal and financial centre outside London with the financial and insurance services industry worth £13 billion to the city's economy. The finance and business service sector account for 38% of total output with more than 30 national and international banks located in the city, including an office of the Bank of England. Leeds is also the UK's third-largest manufacturing centre with around 1,800 firms and 39,000 employees, Leeds manufacturing firms account for 8.8% of total employment in the city and is worth over £7 billion to the local economy. The largest sub-sectors are engineering, printing and publishing, food and drink, chemicals and medical technology. Other key sectors include retail, leisure and the visitor economy, construction, and the creative and digital industries. The city saw several firsts, including the oldest-surviving film in existence, Roundhay Garden Scene (1888), and the 1767 invention of soda water.Public transport, rail and road communications networks in the region are focused on Leeds, and the second phase of High Speed 2 will connect it to London via East Midlands Hub and Sheffield Meadowhall. Leeds currently has the third busiest railway station and the tenth busiest airport outside London.