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James Street (full name Liverpool James Street〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=National Rail )〕) is a railway station located in the centre of Liverpool, England, and situated on the Wirral Line of the Merseyrail network. James Street is an underground station; access is via lift from James Street and, at certain times, via a tunnel from the India Buildings on Water Street. as of 2013/14 James Street is the fifth busiest station on the Merseyrail network. == History == The station opened as the original Liverpool terminus of Mersey Railway Tunnel in 1886. James Street Station together with Hamilton Square underground station in Birkenhead are the oldest deep level underground stations in the world, London's underground stations were just below the street surface built via the cut and cover method. The stations were so deep they required lifts to access, this gave another world's first in having the first lift accessed stations. The lifts were hydraulically operated. In 1892 a tunnel was extended to Liverpool Central station changing James Street's status to a through station. By this time, there were trains from Liverpool branching from Hamilton Square station terminating at Birkenhead Park and Rock Ferry stations in Birkenhead. The line was electrified in 1903. Through trains to West Kirby and New Brighton commenced in 1938, when the former Wirral Railway routes were electrified. There were originally two platforms, either side of a twin-track tunnel. During World War II, Nazi aircraft bombed the surface building of the station. A new surface building was built in the 1960s. In the 1970s, the station was rebuilt as part of the expansion of the Merseyrail network. A new single-track tunnel known as the ''Loop'' was constructed, from the Mersey Railway Tunnel via a new third platform at James Street, then Moorfields, Liverpool Lime Street and Liverpool Central, rejoining the Mersey Railway just to the east of James Street. This opened in 1977. A part of the original tunnel between Liverpool Central and James Street is used by the new Northern Line. The remaining part of that tunnel which is used by neither the Wirral Line nor Northern Lines was retained, to provide a connection between the two for moving empty electric trains between depots at and . Of the original two platforms at James Street, only the westbound remains in regular use, though Platform 2 will be used if necessary or if Engineering works are taking place on the loop itself. Until the mid-1990s James Street closed at 7pm; now the station remains open throughout the evening. On 26 February 2007, a £2 million package of improvements to the station received planning permission from Liverpool City Council. Work on the street outside the station was carried out in 2007 and 2008, and internal work began on 13 February 2008. The station was fully reopened in May 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Liverpool James Street railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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