Images of a new £100m Liverpool Baltic station have been released showing what the new station will look like.
Liverpool Baltic is one of four new stations planned for the City by Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram.
Mayor Steve Rotheram has committed to completing the Liverpool Baltic project by the end of 2027.
The other three new stations will be at Daresbury in Halton, Woodchurch on the Wirral, and Carr Mill in St Helens, with work on those starting by 2030.
Plans for the new Liverpool Baltic station include step-free access, passenger waiting facilities, fully accessible passenger toilets, secured monitored cycle parking, and links to an improved local active travel network. It forms part of the Mayor’s “Merseyrail for All” commitment to reach communities that are currently not connected to the local rail network and will be possible through the use of battery-powered trains that can travel beyond the limits of the current electrified network.
It is also hoped that it will encourage more residents to travel by public transport instead of car, supporting the Mayor’s target to reach net zero by 2035 – the most ambitious target for a city region in the country.
A public consultation of the plans will take place in June and July for the new station that will serve the UK’s ‘coolest neighbourhood’ and according to Time Out magazine is the world’s 11th coolest.
The consultation will open on Monday, 3 June and close at 5 pm on Friday, 26 July. Anyone with comments can submit them through an online survey or by completing a feedback postcard.
During the consultation, two drop-in events that include a new virtual reality (VR) walkthrough of the new station will take place where people can place themselves within the station to view its facilities and points of interest.
Information gathered from the consultation will be taken into account before the designs are submitted as part of the planning application. Subject to approval, it is planned that work will start next year with the station opening expected to be by the end of 2027.
Since I have been Mayor, I have worked around the clock to ensure our area has better connectivity so that people get to enjoy a reliable, accessible, affordable and integrated public transport network that helps, rather than hinders people getting around.
There are some unique challenges with the design of the site given that the station platform is subterranean. However, these plans for Liverpool Baltic further demonstrate our ambitions for the future of public transport in our area – a modern, fully accessible network with state-of-the-art infrastructure that unlocks opportunities for people and businesses.
Liverpool Baltic is just the first in a pipeline of new stations we will be delivering over the next few years to ensure we are connecting local people to each other and to the opportunities we are creating.
Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region
These images reveal for the first time the fantastic new Merseyrail station that our customers will be enjoying in the near future. This is an incredibly complex project, but the end result will be something that will make a massive difference – not just to the Liverpool Baltic area, but to the whole of the city region.
I would encourage everyone to visit the drop-in events to judge for themselves how the new station will look and work for customers.
We’re really proud to be collaborating with our stakeholders in making the Merseyrail network even more integral to the lives of people who live in Liverpool, as well as visitors to our great city region.
Neil Grabham, Managing Director of Merseyrail
Responses
A station at the airport would be better for everyone – surely a line could be built – even a monorail over the road would be fine but it’s absolutely unacceptable that you can’t get a train to the airport and back
I agree about Speke instead of Baltic. Liverpool is backward in not having a station from its airport which should go to the housing area of Speke and then join up with the Garston line and link with Aigburth line straight into City Centre.
I like the idea of Liverpool having a brand new railway station. What about reinstating former railway lines that are used by freight and plans to use battery powered Class 777s on some lines that wouldn’t be electrified with DC 750v 3rd Rail.
Last year I visited Cadiz in Andalucia. Like Liverpool it is a port and has an underground cercanias local rail in the city centre. To extend the network into the San Fernando residential zones on the south of the lagoon street tram cars that could also run on the heavy rail metals have recently come into use. This extends the network considerably.
Agree with EP regarding the lack of rail facilities in Speke and the attention given to the City centre i.e. the new Station at Baltic.
I fully agree with Steve Rotherham that we need to reduce the use of car travel into Liverpool but if you think about it a proliferation of stations in the outskirts of the city would temp people onto the train and leave the car behind.
To return to the possibility of rail connection to Speke and extension of the Garston goods only line would surely be a viable option.
Speke had been a massive estate with no transport links for ninety years. Brunswick and town stations cover the Baltic area. Thousands live in speke but no rail service it’s a joke to build more in town when areas like speke are still ignored. Given the airport you would have thought. A rail link made environmental sense .
What about Seacombe area of wirral steve