Travel Information

By Train

Intercity services run from major towns and cities into Liverpool Lime Street Station. The journey time from London to Liverpool is just over 2.5 hours.

Links are also available to other parts of Merseyside.

Lime Street station is the city's main railway station located in the northeast of the city centre approx 10 mins walk from the Convention Venue.

Virgin Trains (tel: 0845 722 2333; website: www.virgintrains.co.uk) operates numerous services to Liverpool including a fast service from London using the new tilting Pendolino trains capable of speeds of up to 125mph.

Other rail operators running services to Liverpool include Arriva Trains (tel: 0845 606 1660; website: www.arriva.co.uk), Central Trains (tel: (0121) 634 2040; website: www.centraltrains.co.uk) and First Great Western (tel: 0845 700 0125; website: www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk). For all train information contact National Rail Enquiries (tel: 0845 748 4950; website: www.nationalrail.co.uk).

By Road

Follow the signs for Liverpool City Centre and then Liverpool University or the Cathedrals.

Estimated journey times by road:

Town / City Miles Estimated journey time
Birmingham 97 1h 48 mins
Blackburn 45 55 mins
Blackpool 60 1h 14 mins
Bolton 36 43 mins
Bradford 68 1h 14 mins
Burnley 57 1h 2 mins
Cardiff 197 3h 34 mins
Chester 25 31mins
Conwy 67 1h 28 mins
Crewe 43 55 mins
Leeds 73 1h 22 mins
Lincoln 138 2h 32 mins
Llangefni 92 2h 5 mins
Manchester 33 41 mins
Preston 40 53 mins
Sheffield 77 1h 38 mins
Shrewsbury 60 1h 33mins
Southport 30 50 mins
Stockport 36 43 mins
Stoke-on-Trent 52 1 h
Telford 65 1h 38 mins
Warrington 14 22 mins
Windermere 91 1h 46mins
Wolverhampton 84 1h 37 mins
Wrexham 38 48 mins

By Air

Flights to Liverpool John Lennon Airport are available from the following destinations:

Amsterdam
Barcelona
Berlin
Bruges
Brussels
Buchrarest
Budapest
Cologne
Gdansk
Katowice
Kaunas
Krakow
Lisbon
Lodz
Madrid
Olso
Paris
Pisa
Posnan
Prague
Riga
Rome
Stockholm
Valencia
Venice
Warsaw
Wroclaw

Belfast
Derry
London
Southampton
Cork
Dublin
Shannon

Long Haul Flights from the US are also available.

Manchester Airport is also only 41mins away by Road.

 

For further information on the City and the 2008 Celebrations please checkout the links below:

www.visitliverpool.com

Wikipedia - Liverpool

http://www.liverpool.com/

http://www.liverpool08.com/