{"id":31743,"date":"2026-05-08T16:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/31743\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:14:20","slug":"the-5-billion-project-that-will-transform-one-of-englands-greatest-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/31743\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u00a35 Billion Project That Will Transform One of England\u2019s Greatest Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brand new underground rail line could be on the cards for Liverpool<\/a>. Back in December, it was revealed that the city\u2019s local\u00a0authority,\u00a0Liverpool City Region, wants to build\u00a0a subterranean tunnel\u00a0connecting\u00a0Liverpool Central station\u00a0to\u00a0Liverpool Lime Street station in a scheme that would be \u2018as transformational\u2019 as the Liverpool One shopping and leisure complex which launched in 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The tunnel isn\u2019t the only part of the plan. Central Liverpool, as the proposals are currently being called, will\u00a0cover a distance of 86 acres around the existing Liverpool Central Station and will feature new shops, new public spaces and new homes, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The plans were first revealed by Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotherham\u00a0five months ago He\u00a0told the Liverpool Echo<\/a>\u00a0at the time: \u2018This is a scheme about innovation, transformation, jobs, skills, it is about social value. It is about the way that whole area will function. It is a bit like Kings Cross and St Pancras in London, where they redesigned the whole area, that is what we want to do with the centre of Liverpool, we want to redesign it.\u2019<\/p>\n

The local authority\u00a0is seeking funding from the government for half the cost of the scheme and says that the rest would\u00a0come from other sources. Given that the overall cost of the scheme is expected to reach \u00a35bn, it\u2019s looking for \u00a32.5bn from the government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nImage: Liverpool City Region Combined Authority <\/p>\n

Rotherham added: \u2018We would connect Lime Street and Central better than it currently is. That would probably mean subterranean, like with those London stations, so people could move easily from one to another.<\/p>\n

\u2018You would take some of the stopping services from Lime Street, say to Manchester, and you would direct them to a revamped Liverpool Central Station, with more capacity. Then you could run the fast trains from Lime Street to Manchester, with hopefully a new parkway stop in the Liverpool City Region, we haven’t decided where that will be yet.\u2019<\/p>\n

ICYMI:\u00a0Sell-out music festival No Art will return to the Liverpool docks this summer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Plus:\u00a0Plans have been revealed for the tallest skyscraper in Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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