Merseytravel is a public transport body and the passenger transport executive of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority responsible for delivering public transport and other transport functions
Merseytravel's Headquarters at No.1 Mann Island
New Merseyrail Class 777 trains introduced on the network from 2023
Merseytravel bus and rail sign on St James Street
Royal Iris of the Mersey in November 2009
Merseyrail is a commuter rail network which serves Merseyside and adjacent areas of Lancashire and Cheshire in North West England. The network consists of two lines, the Northern Line and Wirral Line,
Merseytravel
…Merseyside, Cheshire, and Lancashire under a franchise model. As a result of the privatisation of British Rail, the Northern and Wirral lines of the local Merseyrail rail network were brought together as the Merseyrail Electrics passenger franchise, that was privatised on 19 January 1997. Under the original privatisation…
A Class 777 at Hooton on the Wirral line
Merseyrail station sign at Eastham Rake station
Thatto Heath station is branded Merseyrail with trains operated by Northern.
A Class 503 train on the Loop (Wirral) line. This train was one of the original batch built by the LMS in 1938