Liverpool Central as we know it today is thought of by many people to have only been there since the 1970s before that Liverpool central was more a high level station like Lime Street, originally the low level station was built just to reach James street station and then onto the Wirral but was not used much in the early days as it was faster and cheaper to walk to James Street and also the steam trains created to much smoke in the underground station, the tunnel that leads from Liverpool central to James Street was built in 1892 but when the Merseyrail loop line was built in the 1970s this tunnel was no longer used by passengers as the new loop line tunnels went around it but a small section is used up to where it reaches paradise junction, also the platform for this line at James street became unused but the platform and tunnel are still there and both are used when work is happening on the loop line the tunnel is also used for freight at times. This tunnel is also the only way for the Wirral lines to connect to northern lines.

 

There is also a tunnel running along side of Liverpool central but it has been sealed in as you will see from the train as you enter from Moorfields it is another platform that was built in the 1970s when work was carried out for a line into the Wapping tunnel, but work was stopped so the tunnel does not connect with the Wapping tunnel, there is also a rumour about a tunnel that was started leading into the Waterloo tunnel but never completed.

 

At the back of the old Liverpool Central high level station site are still the old tunnels built in 1874 that lead down to track level below but once the high level station closed these tunnels where no longer needed, after a few yards there is a sudden drop onto the live rails below when work was carried out to connect the line to the lower Liverpool central instead of the high level station, the low level station had previously just had a small siding in that direction as the low level station was only used for trains going in the James street direction.

 

The old Cheshire lines tunnel built in 1874 running from Liverpool central high level station towards Brunswick in still in use today the only difference is St James station in the middle of the tunnel closed and a new Brunswick station opened at the end of the tunnel, also where the tunnel had gone up to the high level station, this was knocked through to the low level station instead, there are a few vents along the tunnel and at the Liverpool central site there is a small sidings tunnel also a small section of tunnel that would of lead onto the connection to the Wapping tunnel.