The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has allocated £96 million to fund the construction of a new railway station in the Baltic Triangle. The facility will occupy the site of the former St James station, which closed in 1917.
The planned station sits on the Merseyrail Northern Line between Liverpool Central and Brunswick stations. Construction contracts require the installation of ticket offices, passenger lifts, and new platform walls along the existing cutting.
Network Rail and the Merseytravel committee approved the design layout in 2024. The site is located near the intersection of Parliament Street and St James Place, serving the commercial and residential units built in the surrounding industrial zone over the last decade.
Geotechnical surveys of the sandstone tunnels commenced in early 2025. Engineers must stabilize the brick retaining walls of the 19th-century cutting before installing modern passenger infrastructure.
The opening of the station is planned for late 2026. According to the Combined Authority’s business case, the project aims to reduce pedestrian traffic at Liverpool Central, which currently handles over 15 million passengers per year.
Will the new station manage to integrate into the existing rail timetable without causing delays across the wider Northern Line network?