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- 75 Route miles, outer termini at Southport, Ormskirk, Kirkby, Hunts Cross on the Northern Line, and New Brighton, West Kirby, Chester and Ellesmere Port on the Wirral Line
- 3rd Rail electrification (750 v dc)
- Core city centre underground network, including 6,5 miles in tunnels and 5 underground stations
- Underground section includes the original Mersey railway tunnel opened in 1886
- Approximately 100,000 passenger journeys per weekday or 30 million passenger journeys per annum
- Nearly 50% of passengers are daily users
- 67 Stations of which 66 are managed by Merseyrail
- One of the most intensively used networks in the UK with over 780 train services daily (Mon-Fri)
- Clock face, regular interval timetable (15 minute frequencies, increasing to 5 minute on city centre sections)
- Approximately 1,100 staff
- 59 Electric multiple units leased from Angel Trains
- Major refurbishment of entire rolling stock fleet in progress, financed and initiated by the PTE Merseytravel were completed in 2004
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