On 26 October that year, as a result of the 1985 Transport Act, bus services were deregulated and restrictions which prevented regular bus services through the Mersey Tunnels were abolished.

The refuges have fire resistant doors, ramps for wheelchair access, a supply of bottled water, a toilet, and a video link to the Mersey Tunnels Police control room.

* Official website of the Mersey Tunnels

* Official website of the Mersey Tunnels

Secondly, there are also some forces created by specific legislation such as the Port of Tilbury Police ( Port of London Act 1968 ), Mersey Tunnels Police ( County of Merseyside Act 1989 ) and the Epping Forest Keepers ( Epping Forest Act 1878 ).

Additionally, there are also some forces created by specific legislation such as the Port of Tilbury Police ( Port of London Act 1968 ), Mersey Tunnels Police ( County of Merseyside Act 1989 ) and the Epping Forest Keepers ( Epping Forest Act 1878 ), Kew Constabulary ( section 3 of the Parks Regulation Act 1872 ).

It is also responsible for the tunnels under the River Mersey, and consequently it controls the Mersey Tunnels Police force.

It is also responsible for the tunnels under the River Mersey, and consequently it controls the Mersey Tunnels Police force.

Mersey Tunnels Police Ford Galaxy

Mersey Tunnels Police car outside the entrance to one of the tunnels for which the police service is responsible

The Mersey Tunnels Police is a small, non-Home Office police service which polices the Mersey Tunnels in Merseyside, England ( between Liverpool and the Wirral ) on behalf of the Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority.

Mersey Tunnels Police officers hold the office of constable.

The service's jurisdiction consists of the tunnels themselves, marshaling areas, entrance / exit roads and all Mersey Tunnels premises.

Officers execute their duties in accordance with The Mersey Tunnels Bylaws.

The tunnels service have primary responsibility for these areas, meaning they enforce the Mersey Tunnels bylaws and like all other police services the various and relevant UK statute law / legislation although perhaps by the nature of the role primarily the Road Traffic Act.

Mersey Tunnels Police officers are the first line responders to any incidents or emergencies within the tunnels or premises although certain incidents and enquiries of a serious nature may be dealt with by Merseyside Police in accordance with local agreements between the two services.

The Police service was heavily criticised by the Merseyside coroner for its handling of a pursuit in which two 14 year old boys were killed in 2003 after crashing a stolen car into a roadblock set up by Mersey Tunnels officers.

* Mersey Tunnels Police

He appeared as the Police Inspector in the Beatles ' film A Hard Day's Night ( 1964 ) and as the art professor in the Gerry & the Pacemakers film Ferry Cross the Mersey ( 1965 ).

* Images of Mersey Tunnels Police on Flickr

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The road tunnels are owned and operated by Merseytravel, and have their own police force, the Mersey Tunnels Police.

* Mersey Tunnels Police

* Mersey Tunnels Police

The Trent and Mersey Canal was the first part of this ambitious network, and the later Chester Canal, started in 1772, was also a result.

Recent alluvium fills the deeply incised valley of the Weaver and also extends across the Marsh to the Mersey Estuary.

It also runs programmes in two NHS trusts, the Mersey Care NHS Trust and the Alder Hey Children ’ s NHS Foundation Trust.

Early ferries also existed across the Mersey further upstream, at Ince and at Runcorn.

Aside from the engine order telegraphs, she also had docking order telegraphs in the wings, the only Mersey ferryboat to ever have them.

They entered service by July 1990 in time for the QE2's first visit to the Mersey and also operated the new " heritage cruises ".

Mountwood and Woodchurch were also refitted and renamed Royal Iris of the Mersey and Snowdrop, respectively in 2002 and 2004.

They also starred in an early 1965 film called Ferry Cross the Mersey ( sometimes referred to as " Gerry and the Pacemakers ' version of A Hard Day's Night "), for which Marsden wrote much of the soundtrack.

William Jessop proposed a canal and tramway between Breedon and the Trent, with a connecting link to the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1787, which also came to nothing.

Barton also has a large marina complex on the Trent and Mersey Canal, home to some 300 narrow boats, with shops and restaurants.

Historically, the town is mostly within Cheshire, but is historically also a part of Lancashire, to the north of the Mersey.

The Duke transported his coal along the Mersey and Irwell Navigation and also by packhorse, but each method was inefficient and expensive ; river transport was subject to the vagaries of river navigation, and the amount of coal packhorses could carry was limited by its relative weight.

This route would make connecting to any future canals much easier, and would also increase competition with the Mersey and Irwell Navigation company.

The main commercial area is Sale town centre, in the central northern area of the town, but smaller commercial centres are also found in Ashton upon Mersey and Sale Moor.

He has also been a member of the Eastern Area Electricity Consultative Council, and of the Mersey Regional Health Authority.

He had already been created Baron Mersey, of Toxteth in the County Palatine of Lancaster, in 1910, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The town also has a fire station and an RNLI lifeboat station, which houses two boats: a Mersey class and a D class.

The Sankey Canal, which is also known as the Sankey Brook Navigation and the St Helens Canal, is a canal in Cheshire, extending into Merseyside, in the northwest of England, connecting St Helens with the River Mersey.

While the first section, " Sources ," includes older poets such as Robert Graves, John Betjeman and Dylan Thomas, the second section " New Voices " not only includes Seamus Heaney but also Liverpool poets Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten who at the time were not accepted by mainstream critics ( although they were featured in the best-selling The Mersey Sound anthology from 1967 ).

The Rowallan Dam hydro-electric station is also located on the Mersey.

It corresponds roughly to areas of Merseyside north of the River Mersey and also covered parts of modern West Lancashire Borough, Wigan Borough, Warrington Borough and Halton Borough.

It is also occasionally used by their local rivals Tranmere Rovers for their home games at Prenton Park stadium, on the other side of the Mersey.

To help maintenance work on the diameter cast-iron tunnel which took the aqueduct under the Mersey, riveted steel piping was also used.