Category: Railway Heritage
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The repaired wall of the Lime Street to Edge Hill cutting, following collapse.
On Tuesday 28 February 2017, there was, without warning, a catastrophic collapse of a section of the original sandstone wall that ran along the top edge of the Lime Street to Edge Hill Cutting. The old Sandstone wall, was over…
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Warrington Transporter Bridge
The historic Warrington Transporter Bridge crosses the River Mersey close to Warrington Bank Quay Station. It is one of only 8 bridges of this type still surviving worldwide, having Grade II listing and Scheduled Monument protection. The current transporter was…
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Demolition of the Former ‘Garston Hotel’
The Garston Hotel was built in 1853, at the junction of St Mary’s Road, Seddon Road and Dock Road. Built alongside the former Garston Dock Station on the Cheshire Lines Committee Railway (CLC). Customers of the Garston Hotel would have…
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Aerial view of the Pillar of Hercules and the Wapping Cutting
A short video, shot with the kind permission of St Anne’s school, Edge Hill, for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust. The aim of which was to record and document the remains of the original ‘Pillar of Hercules’, a remnant…
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Wapping Tunnel Vent, from above
Aerial view of the Wapping Tunnel vent, in Crown Street park, where the original Crown Street Station was located. This is the first of a series of ventilation shafts, built throughout the length of the tunnel. The grass bank in…
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Landscape Photography
A landscape photo gallery, of images taken over many years, at many varied locations, in my home city of Liverpool and the wider UK. Also at locations beyond our shores, in Ireland and the USA, specifically the phenomenal Grand Canyon…
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Waterloo & Victoria Tunnels
Victoria Tunnel | Byrum Street Cutting | Waterloo Tunnel | Riverside Station | Maps Alongside Edge Hill Station, is what would have been the former Waterloo Branch line. The line ran through the “Victoria Tunnel” (1mile 947yd) with it’s Grade…
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Liverpool Overhead Railway Tunnel, Dingle
The Cars | Tunnel, Pre Collapse | Tunnel, Days after the Collapse | Tunnel, after Completed Repairs | Maps One of my favourite tunnels in Liverpool, has to be the only underground section of the historic Liverpool Overhead Railway (LOR),…
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Great Howard Street Bridge & Grand Arch
Once a train had passed over the Waterloo branch line, via the Victoria and Waterloo Tunnels, enroute to the former Riverside Station, trains would pass beneath the Grand Arch and Great Howard Street Bridge. A view from the Historic Edge Hill…
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Wapping Cutting, Wapping Tunnel & the 1829 Crown Street Tunnel
Wapping Cutting | Wapping Tunnel | 1829 Crown Street Tunnel | 1846 Crown Street Tunnel | Crown Street Station/Park | Wapping Crows Foot | Maps I have been lucky to have visited this astonishing place many times over the years.…
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