A new railway between Liverpool and Manchester is the "missing link" in a major plan for a 'Northern Arc' that could add £7 billion to the UK economy. Both mayors want to see a "concerted focus ...

The proposed Liverpool-Manchester railway could add £7billion to the UK economy and "deliver the same, if not greater economic clout in the North West than anywhere else in the country".

Linking Liverpool and Manchester by railway would not be easy; it would take huge amounts of money, a massive labour force, and a brilliant engineer. The engineer was George Stephenson.

Two hundred years and two days on from the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company’s formation, there are hopes the two cities could be on the brink of another rail revolution.