Originally Posted by
mike delamar
Hi Hollyblack, ive seen lots of pics of the area in the 1950s but have never seen anything of water troughs. is this the area you mean by the entrance to the shed? seems odd that they would be so close to a terminus station ...
Yes, I have always thought it odd too.
And no-one else is reported as having any recollection.
But I'm having trouble believing I imagined it!
Your photo is, I believe where the Chat Moss line diverges from the Runcorn Gap line and where I waited (in the 1950s) in a "side corridor" coach many a time waiting for the road into Lime Street. As I recall it the water troughs were parallel to and to the North of the line on which my train traveled and on a straight section between the curve in the photo and the platforms at Edge Hill station. That is around lat=53.403737 lon=-2.93744
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Well perhaps we will get the the bottom of the mystery one day. (If) there were water troughs there surely must be photos of them somewhere. I believe that steam hauled expresses ran direct from Riverside Station (no change of loco at Edge Hill) only for a relatively short period (due to weight restrictions near Riverside) and such trains would have been the only conceivable users of water troughs.
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