BR era steam on railways around Liverpool. Lime Street, Exchange and Central featured along with rare footage of the CLC line to Southport Lord Street.
Beautiful narration and wonderful footage. I remember my mum taking me on the Overhead in the 1940s. Thanks foe your painstaking research. All a very enjoyable reminder of another age.
Some great footage. Excellent shots with Lister Power Station in the background. A terrific tour of the railways around Liverpool. Great and valuable work.
Did you know, Lister Drive was the 1st place in the UK to have those iconic shaped cooling towers? I happened on the fact randomly when, for whatever reason, I was looking at the website of an old architects, they are a Dutch design apparently, so there, if you feel like boring friends or loved one during a lull in conversation you can hit them with that fact.
That was absolutely amazing. I started my Railway career as a Trainee Signalman at Garston Church Rd which was shown here. The Box was not for me so I moved outside and went Shunting. If I had a pound for every time I have pulled the points at the Edge hill head shunt shown at the beginning I would be a rich man. We used to run round the coal trains there for Fiddlers ferry, as well as other stuff. An old hand Driver who is sadly no longer with us told me that he worked with a young engine cleaner who we all came to know as Billy J Kramer. He started at Bank hall shed but was at Aintree for a Time, that's where this lad knew him from. I also remember the last days of the MD&HC Loco's although I was only a toddler at the time. One of the last shots is one passing the old Grain terminal at the bottom of Hill St. I grew up not a five minuet walk away. Happy days.
This marvellous look back is a reminder of the ingenuity of the Victorian, and Edwardian Liverpool society. The transport infrastructure they created evolved to this day. And it was done more likely without the hundreds of millions of pounds of public money spent on Liverpool transport nowadays. Having worked in Victoria Street in the mid 1960s I still recall the vibrancy created by the mix of business's in the street and the pre-war architecture of the buildings, offices, fruit exchange, and head post office. Now the area, in daytime is bereft of people and business's
I was an enthusiastic train spotter in the 50s and 60s and this video brought back a lot of good memories. So pleased that I was able to see this. Thank you.
We grew up in a big old Victorian house in Stoneycroft in the 1970's and 80's. I remember the old station on Mill Lane West Derby was a green grocers called, rather prosaically, The Station, it's a fireplace showroom today. Anyway, that rail line, or rather where it was, is now the Liverpool Loop Line footpath. IDK when the rails were lifted from that track, but I have this very distinct memory of taking the dog out for a walk at the walkers playing field and seeing a train come down that line. What's up with that, I hear you ask, well in all my time I'd never seen a train on that track, but the other thing was it was a steam train, this would have been the late 70's so a long time after steam had finished. The thing is in this memory I have it was general election day, looking at the dates it would have been 1979. I'm not too sure if any of this actually happened, as I know your memory starts to play tricks on you as you get older. Maybe it was some steam special connected with the general election, IDK.
I'd love to know what happend next, but the film was cut. At 23:25, apparently, after having disgraced itself whilst on Southport shed, the York and Lancaster Regiment had to be rescued by the breakdown train. However at 23:43 we see a driving wheel happily chomping through pieces of wood, followed by the front bogies that took a dislike to the wood and derailed at 23:50. Did they have to send out a second breakdown train? 🤣🤣
My dad used to take me on the overhead when I was a kid.What a waste to have it dismantled.Poor foresight by the powers that be.Today it would be excellent for commuters .
Those Dock Board tanks where the major cause of the Overhead Railway closure because of the high sulphur coal and steam both converted to Sulphuric Acid causing vast amounts of metal rot of the overhead metal work. When it came to repairs or scraping the overhead railway the Dock Board kept their hands firmly in their pockets and allowed this Liverpool Jewel to be scraped. Yet another one of Liverpool's powers that be bad decisions,
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Beautiful narration and wonderful footage. I remember my mum taking me on the Overhead in the 1940s. Thanks foe your painstaking research. All a very enjoyable reminder of another age.
Some great footage. Excellent shots with Lister Power Station in the background. A terrific tour of the railways around Liverpool. Great and valuable work.
Did you know, Lister Drive was the 1st place in the UK to have those iconic shaped cooling towers? I happened on the fact randomly when, for whatever reason, I was looking at the website of an old architects, they are a Dutch design apparently, so there, if you feel like boring friends or loved one during a lull in conversation you can hit them with that fact.
I grew up in Liverpool in the 50s and 60s, thanks to all those special people who were smart enough to film it all before its demise.
Liverpool ia on the UP ! I am 72 , i love my memories. The City is now wonderful, easy to walk around, vistors love it .
That was absolutely amazing. I started my Railway career as a Trainee Signalman at Garston Church Rd which was shown here. The Box was not for me so I moved outside and went Shunting. If I had a pound for every time I have pulled the points at the Edge hill head shunt shown at the beginning I would be a rich man. We used to run round the coal trains there for Fiddlers ferry, as well as other stuff. An old hand Driver who is sadly no longer with us told me that he worked with a young engine cleaner who we all came to know as Billy J Kramer. He started at Bank hall shed but was at Aintree for a Time, that's where this lad knew him from. I also remember the last days of the MD&HC Loco's although I was only a toddler at the time. One of the last shots is one passing the old Grain terminal at the bottom of Hill St. I grew up not a five minuet walk away. Happy days.
This marvellous look back is a reminder of the ingenuity of the Victorian, and Edwardian
Liverpool society. The transport infrastructure they created evolved to this day.
And it was done more likely without the hundreds of millions of pounds of public money spent on Liverpool transport nowadays.
Having worked in Victoria Street in the mid 1960s I still recall the vibrancy created by the mix of business's in the street and the pre-war architecture of the buildings, offices, fruit exchange, and head post office. Now the area, in daytime is bereft of people and business's
Fantastic thank you I cycle a lot on the loopline so good to see what it looked like
Thanks for sharing
I was an enthusiastic train spotter in the 50s and 60s and this video brought back a lot of good memories. So pleased that I was able to see this. Thank you.
fantastic video loved every second of it, beign a 80s child i missed the golden age so was great to see it
We grew up in a big old Victorian house in Stoneycroft in the 1970's and 80's. I remember the old station on Mill Lane West Derby was a green grocers called, rather prosaically, The Station, it's a fireplace showroom today. Anyway, that rail line, or rather where it was, is now the Liverpool Loop Line footpath. IDK when the rails were lifted from that track, but I have this very distinct memory of taking the dog out for a walk at the walkers playing field and seeing a train come down that line. What's up with that, I hear you ask, well in all my time I'd never seen a train on that track, but the other thing was it was a steam train, this would have been the late 70's so a long time after steam had finished. The thing is in this memory I have it was general election day, looking at the dates it would have been 1979. I'm not too sure if any of this actually happened, as I know your memory starts to play tricks on you as you get older. Maybe it was some steam special connected with the general election, IDK.
I'd love to know what happend next, but the film was cut. At 23:25, apparently, after having disgraced itself whilst on Southport shed, the York and Lancaster Regiment had to be rescued by the breakdown train. However at 23:43 we see a driving wheel happily chomping through pieces of wood, followed by the front bogies that took a dislike to the wood and derailed at 23:50. Did they have to send out a second breakdown train? 🤣🤣
My dad used to take me on the overhead when I was a kid.What a waste to have it dismantled.Poor foresight by the powers that be.Today it would be excellent for commuters
.
Those Dock Board tanks where the major cause of the Overhead Railway closure because of the high sulphur coal and steam both converted to Sulphuric Acid causing vast amounts of metal rot of the overhead metal work. When it came to repairs or scraping the overhead railway the Dock Board kept their hands firmly in their pockets and allowed this Liverpool Jewel to be scraped. Yet another one of Liverpool's powers that be bad decisions,