dont know if this has been on here before
but this guys got loads of great old pics, some from the 60s of steam in colour!!
http://kerry9621.fotopic.net/show_group.php?id=4275
mike
Printable View
dont know if this has been on here before
but this guys got loads of great old pics, some from the 60s of steam in colour!!
http://kerry9621.fotopic.net/show_group.php?id=4275
mike
Some great pics there Michael, thanks for that. Some of them before my time (ahem!).
Some good ones of Central Station too.
http://www.53a-pix.co.uk/picture/MDHB16-LD-291256.jpg
MDHB No 16
Liverpool - 29/12/56
http://www.53a-pix.co.uk/picture/MDHB14-LD-291256.jpg
MDHB No 14
Liverpool - 29/12/56
http://www.53a-pix.co.uk/picture/CEG...-LI-291256.jpg
CEGB 0-4-0ST
Liverpool - 29/12/56
The photos are from this web:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/53amodels/ind.htm
hi there brilliant them marie, ive seen loads of liverpool docks, but never them ones,
love them
thanks
heres some ive scanned from a few books,
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...building-1.jpg
on old "pug" loco going passed the 3 graces in the late 50s, after the overhead railway was torn down
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...tree3locos.jpg
just round by where i live, Aintree on grand national day in the early 60s, the line on the top has gone now, look at all kids watching
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9.../pugswanst.jpg
and a model of a pug and pubs by liverpool model railway society:)
mike
Thanks for the photos Mike.
A couple of years back there were a couple of yellow Merseyrail painted class 73's parked at Birkenhead North depot. They were looking a bit neglected. Any idea what they were used for (I'm assuming general maintenance/permanent way) or where they went (again, I'm assuming they were cut up)?
Cheers.
EDIT: Googled it...
WikipediaQuote:
Merseyrail formerly had four Class 73 electro-diesel locomotives for shunting, sandite trains, engineering works and other departmental duties; two of these had been repainted in the yellow livery of the previous franchise holder. These locomotives were sold to a preservation company in 2002
thats right they where for maintaince, used to see them at hall road, crosby, and kirkdale,
usually they where saw out during the winter times when the "sandite" trains ran to de ice the track,
theres a pic of one here sandwiched between an old class 501 unit for diicing at kirkdale in the late 90s
http://mark5811.fotopic.net/p31952764.html
no most of them got saved and preserved some are on the severn valley railway steam railway and keighly and worth valley railway, been painted back in there old liveries, one did get scrapped but for spares for the other ones
this is the one that got scrapped, used to see in a corner of kirkdale for years
http://mark5811.fotopic.net/p28662140.html
one at birkenhead
http://tims-train-photos.fotopic.net/p3241452.html
and here are some ones that got saved and are now run on preserved steam railways
http://community.fotopic.net/search/...ab=P&txt=73005
mike