On January 15, 1847 the Trent and Mersey Canal was acquired by the North Staffordshire Railway Company ( NSR ).

Until the establishment of the Mersey Railway in 1886, the ferries were the only means of crossing the river, and so all of the routes were heavily used.

In 1886 the Mersey Railway Tunnel was opened, providing competition for the ferry services.

The first tunnel under the River Mersey was for the Mersey Railway in 1886.

A direct branch to Liverpool, bypassing the earlier Liverpool and Manchester line was opened in 1869, from Weaver Junction north of to Ditton Junction via the Runcorn Railway Bridge over the River Mersey.

In addition to the ferries, the Mersey Railway tunnel in 1886 and the Queensway road tunnel in 1934 gave rapid access to Liverpool.

Several new underwater tunnels were built in the UK in the following decades: the Tower Subway in London ; the Severn Tunnel under the River Severn ; and the Mersey Railway Tunnel under the River Mersey.

Services on the Wirral Line operate from the loop described above through the Mersey Railway Tunnel to in Birkenhead.

Third and fourth rail direct current electrification systems had been chosen for the underground tube railways and the Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan District Railway in London, the Mersey Railway in Liverpool and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Liverpool to line.

* 1885: Mersey and Deloraine Railway opened — 4 ' 6 " gauge

In 1880, Heaton Mersey got a station on the Midland Railway line into Manchester Central.

The Trustees approached the North Staffordshire Railway Company, then owners of the Trent and Mersey canal, to ask if they would contribute towards the cost of the boat lift.

** 1938 Birkenhead Park-West Kirby and New Brighton: the Wirral Railway / Mersey Railway.

It first began to grow from a population of 477 with the construction of the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1777, the same year Bass beer in Burton was started, at which time it became a small inland port and a village with four public houses: The Railway ( which was later demolished ), The Rising Sun, The Green Man and The Green Dragon, all selling locally brewed beers from Burton upon Trent for the many Irish canal navvies.

With the coming of the railways, the Trent and Mersey Company canals were sold to the North Staffordshire Railway, with the formal takeover occurring on 15 January 1845.

The Mersey Railway, which had avoided being " Grouped " with the LMS in 1923, also joined the LMR.

The station was formerly part of the Mersey Railway.

The Illustrated London News showing the opening of the Mersey Railway Tunnel

The Mersey Railway was a passenger railway that connected the communities of Liverpool and Birkenhead, England, which lie on opposite banks of the River Mersey, via the Mersey Railway Tunnel from 1886 to 1948.

Mersey Railway 0-6-4T No. 5 " Cecil Raikes " at Steamport, Southport, on 30 May 1988, showing the condensing pipes

Mersey Railway 0-6-4T No. 5 Cecil Raikes at Steamport, Southport, on 30 May 1988, showing the condensing pipes

After the electrification of the Mersey Railway in England, four of its 0-6-4T locomotives were sold to J.

Gerry Marsden began writing most of their own songs, including " It's Gonna Be All Right ", " I'm the One ", and " Ferry Cross the Mersey ", as well as their first and biggest US hit, " Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying ", which peaked at No. 4, and which Gerry Marsden initially gave to Decca recording artist Louise Cordet in 1963.

The outstanding success of the series was No. 10, which, unlike the others, had its own title ( The Mersey Sound ) and which, with sales of over 500, 000, has become one of the best-selling poetry anthologies ever.

The longest canal pound in the United Kingdom is between the stop lock on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Preston Brook ( Dutton Stop Lock No 76 ) and the start of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Leigh ( Poolstock Bottom Lock No 2 ), a distance of.

No. 1 The Major was retained by the Mersey Railway until 1907 for departmental use, but was then replaced by Metropolitan Railway A Class ( 4-4-0T ) No. 61, built by Beyer Peacock.

*" Ferry Cross the Mersey " ( with other artists including Paul McCartney, PWL, PWL 41, May 1989 ) UK No. 1, IRL No. 1

As No. 7 Aircraft Assembly Unit, the work also included the assembly of various types of US-built aircraft that arrived by ship at the Mersey docks.

Cairnryan became " No. 2 Military Port ", an important secondary large-scale port facility that was available for use should facilities on the Mersey and the Clyde became unavailable due to enemy bombing.

* 1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician ( d. 1929 )

An example of this approach is the Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal.

In 894 one group left Dublin, perhaps settling on the Irish Sea coast of Britain between the River Mersey and the Firth of Clyde.

As a leading industrialist, Wedgwood was a major backer of the Trent and Mersey Canal dug between the River Trent and River Mersey, during which time he became friends with Erasmus Darwin.

The first of these was Josiah Wedgwood, who became a close friend of Darwin in 1765 while campaigning for the building of the Trent and Mersey Canal and subsequently closely modelled his large new pottery factory at Etruria on Boulton's Soho Manufactory.

It formed after the last ice age, one of many such peat bogs in north-east Cheshire and the Mersey basin that formed in hollows caused by melting ice.

Wales would extend as far as the rivers Severn and Mersey including most of Cheshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire.

Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm, at the entrance to the River Mersey in North West England.

Gosport and Portsmouth are linked by the Gosport Ferry ; Southampton and Isle of Wight are linked by ferry and fast Catamaran ferries ; North Shields and South Shields on Tyneside are linked by the Shields Ferry ; and the Mersey has the Mersey Ferry.

* A Benedictine priory is founded at Birkenhead, England, resulting in the first recorded Mersey Ferry.

Telford's reputation in Shropshire led to his appointment in 1793 to manage the detailed design and construction of the Ellesmere Canal, linking the ironworks and collieries of Wrexham via the north-west Shropshire town of Ellesmere, with Chester, utilising the existing Chester Canal, and then the River Mersey.

Other works by Telford include the St Katharine Docks ( 1824 – 1828 ) close to Tower Bridge in central London, where he worked with the architect Philip Hardwick, the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal ( today known as the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal ), Over Bridge near Gloucester, the second Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal ( 1827 ), and the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal ( today part of the Shropshire Union Canal ) — started in May 1826 but finished, after Telford's death, in January 1835.

The original line of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal leads to the Digbeth Branch Canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations at the Warwick Bar, while the later line of the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal leads to the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal ( and Tame Valley Canal ) at Salford Junction, which in turn has connections to the Coventry Canal and the Trent and Mersey Canal.

Formed by amalgamations of once-independent canals, the ' Leicester Line ' of the Grand Union Canal runs north from Norton Junction for about 35 miles ( 56 km ) until it reaches Leicester, where it joins the River Soar to provide a link to the River Trent and to the Trent and Mersey Canal.

It is possible to continue to the Trent and Mersey Canal, Coventry Canal and North Oxford Canal, to complete a circuit known as the Leicester Ring.

During Queen Victoria's widowhood, Edward pioneered the idea of royal public appearances as we understand them today — for example, opening Thames Embankment in 1871, Mersey Tunnel in 1886, and Tower Bridge in 1894.

In 2005 she appeared in the Liverpool Empire Theatre in the musical play Twopence To Cross The Mersey.

The River Irwell, a long tributary of the River Mersey, runs southwesterly through Bacup towards Rawtenstall from its source by the town's upland outskirts at Weir.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution Mersey class lifeboat at Seahouses bears the name Grace Darling.

Having forced a crossing of the River Mersey at Stockport, he stormed Bolton, allegedly killing 1, 600 of the Parliamentarian defenders and citizens.

On 9 August, Charles was at Kendal, Lambert hovering in his rear, and Harrison marching swiftly to bar his way at the Mersey.

The Ellesmere Canal was intended to connect the coal mines and ironworks at Ruabon and Wrexham to the canal network and thence to the sea via the River Mersey and the River Severn.

Almost all Britain's shipping imports passed through those two sea areas en-route to the Clyde or the Mersey.