Review promised after 'chaos' at Lime Street

RAIL USERS STRANDED AFTER QUEUEING FOR HOURS FOLLOWING LFC PARADE WHEN STATION'S MAIN ENTRANCE WAS CLOSED

- By JAMIE GREER

NETWORK Rail said it will review what happened at Lime Street Station after the Liverpool FC parade.

The main entrance to the busy rail station on Lime Street was closed, with people having to enter through the side entrance on Skelhorne Street.

Photos from the station that evening show hundreds of people queueing outside over the space of several hours, with many stranded in Liverpool as they tried to get home.

Fans told the ECHO this week that they experienced waits of over three hours at the station, and claim there was little communication from staff and overcrowding.

They said many commuters had no idea what was going on, with no staff or signage telling them where to queue. Some ended up on trains which were virtually empty while thousands remained stuck outside the station. Others said they should have been told of alternative stations to catch a train, such as Edge Hill.

Steve Miller, 49, who travelled from Lancaster, said: "It was absolute chaos. The queue went all the way around the four sides of the station."

When pressed on the reason behind the issues at the station, mainly the entrances being closed and shutters pulled down on Tuesday, Network Rail declined to go into detail about what happened.