Transport
Fairly regular bus routes 8/9, 10/10A/10B and 139 connect Old Swan to Liverpool City Centre continuing along the Prescot Road to Huyton, Prescot and St Helens in east Merseyside. Old Swan has other bus links - routes 60, 61/61A, 62, 81/81A and 102, which do not serve Liverpool City Centre but provide important links to other areas of Liverpool including Aigburth, Aintree, Anfield, Bootle, Childwall, Clubmoor, Crosby, Croxteth, Fazakerley, Netherton, Norris Green, Orrell Park, Speke, Walton, Wavertree, West Derby and Woolton.
The Merseytram System (Line 2) was due to run through Old Swan but this has now been cancelled after funding from the British Government was denied.
The M62 motorway starts at the end of Broadgreen Road out of the city, and is the east gateway into the city via Edge Lane Drive.
The nearest railway stations to Old Swan are Broad Green railway station and Wavertree Technology Park railway station. Both are operated by Northern Rail and served by trains to and from Liverpool Lime Street to Wigan North Western, Stalybridge via. Manchester Victoria and Warrington Bank Quay.
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