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Thread: Lime Street Station c.1890

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    Flaccid Member Stanier's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by dazza View Post
    Did the original trains have to be pulled up to Edge Hill when they first started out?
    Condensed snippet from an old magazine article,

    "When the tunnel was first bored they made no provision for ventilation since the line was rope worked and only first class carriages were lit by day, by oil lamps hanging outside the windows. It became unpopular with passengers as it could mean a journey of ten minutes or more in total blackness, and also because steam locos passed through the tunnel to work at the Lime Street end it was always full of smoke."

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    The "Lion" steam engine (as seen in the Titfield Thunderbolt, the basement of Liverpool Museum at one time and soon to be at the Museum of Liverpool) was once at Lime St station. It went off for a while somewhere else and when it came back, the station/railways had new owners who wouldn't honour the former 99 year contract to allow it to stay there.


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