Originally Posted by
dazza
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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By the way, when condoms came out the ticket collectors at Edge Hill were made redundant.
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