Merseyside is an amalgamation of 22 former local government districts from the former administrative counties of Lancashire, Cheshire and six autonomous county boroughs centred on Birkenhead, Bootle, Liverpool, Southport, St Helens, and Wallasey.

This would have included four districts: Southport / Crosby, Liverpool / Bootle, St Helens / Widnes and Wirral / Chester.

In 1970 the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive ( which operates today under the Merseytravel brand ) was set up, covering the Liverpool and Wirral conurbations, but excluding Southport and St. Helens.

Drummer Freddie Marsden, born Fredrick John Marsden, 23 November 1940, at 8 Menzies Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, died on 9 December 2006 in Southport, age 66.

* Other routes planned for closure which survived included: Settle-Carlisle Line, Ipswich – Lowestoft, Manchester – Sheffield via Edale ( but the Woodhead Line and Bakewell routes closed instead ), Ayr – Stranraer, Glasgow – Kilmarnock, Glasgow – Edinburgh via Shotts, Barrow – Whitehaven, Middlesbrough – Whitby, York – Harrogate, Leeds / Bradford – Ilkley, Nottingham – Lincoln, Boston – Skegness, Birkenhead – Wrexham, Liverpool – Southport ( and other Merseyside commuter routes ), Bury-Manchester, Leicester – Peterborough, Hastings – Ashford and Ryde – Shanklin.

The largest of those utilized in this way were those under the Cheshire Lines Committee: the other participants were the Midland Railway and the Great Northern Railway, taking in both Liverpool and Southport.

Services operate to the north and west to Liverpool via St Helens Junction, Preston via Bolton and Southport via Wigan.

The village, which lies more than a mile inland, is becoming modernized and growing quickly, especially along the principal road, that from Liverpool to Southport, which crosses the township in a northerly direction, with roads branching off to the shore and to Thornton.

The Liverpool to Southport railway line provided a link to Liverpool Exchange railway station, serving the business sector of the city.

The Southport to Liverpool line also had a through service to London Euston on weekdays, when a steam hauled train, generally of two or three carriages, would call at selected stations on the line including Blundellsands & Crosby and Waterloo.

To compensate for this loss of amenity, British Rail introduced a diesel multiple unit service between Southport Chapel Street and Liverpool Lime Street.

This service operated until Liverpool Exchange Station closed in 1977, when the trains from Southport were diverted, proceeding under the city to Liverpool Central Low Level.

The town is rurally landlocked ; the land between Formby and the areas of Southport, Ormskirk and Liverpool is green belt land and is used for arable agricultural purposes.

The Formby Bypass ( A565 ) was built over fifty years ago to take the major Liverpool to Southport route out of Formby and cut alongside the fringe of the town.

Both are on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network, which runs from Liverpool to Southport.

These include services to Southport, Ince Blundell, Liverpool, Southport and Formby District Hospital and Merseytravel's Formby circular routes.

In addition to motorized transport, Formby is served by excellent cycle routes, mainly centring around the pinewoods along the coast leading to both Southport and Liverpool.

Due to this increase in population the railway came to Maghull in 1849, with a station on the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway as well as the construction of the town's first police station which was set up by Lancashire County Council in 1870 and the town got a second station in 1884, Sefton and Maghull, on the newly built Cheshire Lines Committee Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway to Southport, the line was an extension of the North Liverpool Extension Line.

George's son Robert had been working in South America from 1824 to 1827 and had returned to run the Forth Street Works while George was living in Liverpool and overseeing the construction of the new line.

From there, it flows northwest through Allegheny and Beaver counties, before making an abrupt turn to the south-southwest at the West Virginia – Ohio – Pennsylvania triple-state line ( near East Liverpool, Ohio ; Chester, West Virginia ; and Midland, Pennsylvania ).

* 1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.

Although the Central London Railway ( CLR ) was incorporated in 1891 for a line between Shepherd's Bush and Bank, with an extension to Liverpool Street authorised in 1892, the time for completion had to be extended twice, to 1894 and 1899 ; and it was not until 27 June 1900 that it was formally opened, a month before public traffic began on 30 July to Bank station.

The line was closed between Liverpool Street and Leytonstone and re-opened on 7 July 2007.

Access at the north end of the line was difficult: trains were limited to 26 wagons and had to be shunted into the Great Eastern's Liverpool Street station and then drawn forward onto the East London line.

The line has been shown separately on Tube maps since 1988, though in later years it was usually operated as a separate line, with the sections not used by regular Metropolitan line trains ( from Hammersmith to and from Liverpool Street to ) not included on the main Metropolitan line maps.

Bermondsey had been host to London's first railway, from Spa Road, as part of the London Bridge to Greenwich line, and the junction of lines from Croydon and Kent at South Bermondsey, the Brunel's Rotherhithe foot-tunnel was converted into part of the East London Railway with original connections from Liverpool Street Station via Whitechapel to New Cross and New Cross Gate.

Chingford is served by a railway station which is the terminus of the branch line from Liverpool Street station in the City of London.

The area's main thoroughfare is Wood Street, which has a good selection of shops and local businesses, and is served by railway, with a station on the Liverpool Street to Chingford line.

The town is served by Witham railway station, situated on the London Liverpool Street to Ipswich main line operated by Greater Anglia.

In particular, the NSR had plans for a railway from Stoke-on-Trent to Liverpool, however, this line was abandoned due to opposition from other rail interests.

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, considered to be the world's first intercity line, opened in 1826.

The line has its main core which was expanded into a complex system of branches and divergences serving also the major towns and cities of Northampton, Coventry, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Macclesfield, Stockport, Manchester, Runcorn, and Liverpool ; there is also a link to Edinburgh, but this is not the direct route between London and Edinburgh.

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.

The main spine of the WCML is quadruple track almost all of the way from London to ( where the line diverges into sections to Manchester, North Wales, Liverpool, and Scotland ) except for a section of triple track between Brinklow Junction ( north of ), Attleborough South Junction ( south of ) on the Trent Valley Line and between Colwich Junction and where it is a mixture of triple and double track ( through the tunnel under the Shugborough estate ).

Architectural sculptor John Thomas contributed eight allegorical statues representing the cities served by the line: London, Liverpool, Manchester, etc.

The line opened on 15 September 1830 and ran between the towns of Liverpool and Manchester in North West England in the United Kingdom.

The line was a remarkable engineering achievement for its time, beginning with the Wapping Tunnel beneath Liverpool from the south end of Liverpool Docks to Edge Hill.

At some point in the next two years they moved back to England, by 1873 settling into The Glen, a large Victorian house in Blundellsands, a seaport in Lancashire, north-west England, which was developing into a wealthy suburb of Liverpool.

The hill was the site of the Battle of Spion Kop in the Second Boer War, where over 300 men of the Lancashire Regiment died, many of them from Liverpool.

A variant eaten and sold in Lancashire, especially Liverpool, is made with cooked and mashed potatoes.

The Rainhill Trials were an important competition in the early days of steam locomotive railways, run in October 1829 in Rainhill, Lancashire ( now Merseyside ) for the nearly completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

" Simple rectangular timber boxes, four to a wagon, they were used to convey coal from the Lancashire collieries to Liverpool, where they were transferred to horse drawn carts by crane.

* The Aire and Calder Navigation carries boats to Leeds, and ( via the Leeds and Liverpool Canal ), to Lancashire

Merseyside was created on 1 April 1974 from areas previously parts of the administrative counties of Lancashire and Cheshire, along with the county boroughs of Birkenhead, Wallasey, Liverpool, Bootle, and St Helens.

The Liberal split made the Unionists ( the Liberal Unionists sat in coalition with the Conservatives after 1895 and would eventually merge with them ) the dominant force in British politics until 1906, with strong support in Lancashire, Liverpool & Manchester, Birmingham ( the fiefdom of its former mayor Joseph Chamberlain who as recently as 1885 had been a furious enemy of the Conservatives ) and the House of Lords where many Whigs sat ( a second Home Rule Bill would pass the Commons in 1893 only to be overwhelmingly defeated in the Lords ).

The family originally lived in Ormskirk, Lancashire, while her father completed a doctorate at Liverpool University.

The ITA determined that the first three franchise areas would cover the London area, the English Midlands, and the North of England ( basically the Lancashire / Yorkshire belt of industrial cities from Liverpool to Hull, with the surrounding countryside ).

Guitarist / vocalist Brian O ' Hara and best friend guitarist / vocalist Joey Bower ( born Joseph Bower, 17 November 1939, Dingle, Liverpool, Lancashire ) formed The Two Jays in 1957.

The companies used the ITA's Winter Hill and Emley Moor transmitters covering Lancashire and the West and East Ridings of Yorkshire, including the major conurbations around Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Doncaster.

Holyhead's maritime importance was at its height in the 19th century when the two and a half mile ( 4 km ) breakwater, widely acknowledged to be one of Britain's finest, was built, creating a safe harbour for vessels caught in stormy waters on their way to Liverpool and the industrial ports of Lancashire.

* Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway: same date

The L & MR was intended to achieve cheap transport of raw materials, finished goods and passengers between the Port of Liverpool, and east Lancashire, in the port's hinterland.

Starting at the Mersey Estuary near Liverpool, it generally follows the original routes of the rivers Mersey and Irwell through the historic counties of Cheshire and Lancashire.

Nimmo was born in Liverpool and was educated at Quarry Bank High School and began his stage career at the Hippodrome Theatre in Bolton, Lancashire.

Cherie Booth was born on 23 September 1954 at Fairfield Hospital, Bury, Lancashire ( now Greater Manchester ), England, and brought up in Ferndale Road, Waterloo, north of Liverpool.

This line was promoted by the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway in August 1846, but was completed by the East Lancashire Railway.

It is 8 miles to the east of Liverpool city centre and lies within the historic boundaries of Lancashire.

Historically within Lancashire, the town was developed from the 1950s through 1970s as a means to house the overspill of Liverpool.

The shipping movement for Liverpool was controlled by the ' North West Shipping Control ' at Bank Hall ( a country house in Lancashire ) during World War II, which was situated away from Liverpool due to the high risk of bombing.

By the 1960s the proposed upgrade of the A580 to dual carriageway in Lancashire had come to be considered inadequate, and there was " an urgent need " to link Liverpool to the motorway network.