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06-25-2007
phredd

What a fantastic ride back in time.
What a jurney.
Thanks Wato.

Phredd
06-28-2007
Wato

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gerrysea

Interest? Quite often on a Sunday, in my younger years, my Dad used to take me on a trip along the full length of the Overhead whenever there was a ship of interest in the docks. I particularly remenber us doing the trip when the Empress of Canada caught fire and capsized in Gladstone Dock(1953). We'd get the No 60 to the Dingle and then Overhead to Seaforth and back. Thanks to your post I've just done it again!!

Aww mate, glad to have helped with the memories, I'll keep trying to find stuff of interest and post it. :PDT11
Hope you and yours are all well...
Peace and Happiness......Gaz
06-28-2007
Wato

Quote:

Originally Posted by phredd

What a fantastic ride back in time.
What a jurney.
Thanks Wato.

Phredd

Most welcome mate, speak soon :)

Peace and Happiness...Gaz
06-29-2007
eddie french

Two years ago we visited friends in Chicago Il.
We went under, over and on the MTS which includes a carbon copy of the Dockers Umbrella. The yanks have really looked after their Overhead railway.
If theirs is still fully functional and providing a much needed service then it surely was folly to demolish ours.
I have some pics somewhere, I will dig them out and you will see that the steelwork is identical on both structures when compared with library shots of the Liverpool one.
Such a pity :PDT_Xtremez_42:
06-29-2007
ChrisGeorge

Quote:

Originally Posted by eddie french

Two years ago we visited friends in Chicago Il.
We went under, over and on the MTS which includes a carbon copy of the Dockers Umbrella. The yanks have really looked after their Overhead railway.
If theirs is still fully functional and providing a much needed service then it surely was folly to demolish ours.
I have some pics somewhere, I will dig them out and you will see that the steelwork is identical on both structures when compared with library shots of the Liverpool one.
Such a pity :PDT_Xtremez_42:

Hi Eddie

A number of American cities had or still have overhead or elevated railways (the "El" as it is known here). See this Google search.

Chris
06-30-2007
Kev

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wato

Errm I've only done 3 posts so far so please excuse me if this has been linked to but a mate on you tube has this of the overhead railway....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr6cKHaHv4s

Hope it's of interest :PDT11

Some great stuff there of the tunnels if anyones interested too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoCmNTqTBf4

I still get mad at the lack of interest in this site....Its WORLD heritage!! If this was London we'd have a museum over it. :disgust: Sorry Rant over.

Peace and Happiness.....Gaz

Gaz, thanks for these. The OH is excellent, really enjoyed the ride. The Moorish Arch is great too, we have a Moorish Arch thread: Here
06-30-2007
PhilipG

Where the Overhead went underground.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1222/...aefa2d8c_o.jpg
06-30-2007
Kev

Phil, what a superb pic :handclap:. I'm amazed that you can also see the Tower Block (Heysmoor Heights) at the bottom of Lodge Lane!
06-30-2007
PhilipG

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kev

Phil, what a superb pic :handclap:. I'm amazed that you can also see the Tower Block (Heysmoor Heights) at the bottom of Lodge Lane!

Thank you, Kev.
I don't know how to crop photos, so I took about a dozen of this view before I was happy, and I had to keep deleting pics because the memory card was full.
02-15-2008
taffy

Overhead Railway Stations

Interesting web site, worth a look

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/s...es/index.shtml
02-20-2008
quincyg

LOR remnants

took these August Bank holiday last year
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ture1193-1.jpg

not sure if these are remains of a station
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ture1200-1.jpg

I'm too young to have known the LOR but my dad always loved it. I've got books and a video about it. And as I result always had a soft sopt for it's history. Ironic then that 8 years ago when we moved I found out that the LOR ran along a little beyond the bottom of our garden before sweeping into Seaforth & Litherland Station.
02-20-2008
Chris48

I used to work with a guy that wrote a book called "The Dockers Umbrella" His name was Paul Bolger.
02-20-2008
Ged

Hello Chris. Yes, he also wrote the 3 Edwardian Liverpool books with old A-Z pages in them. The blue, red and Green ones for each part of the city, very informative.
02-20-2008
Chris48

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Blakes Hardman Street Circa 1950
02-20-2008
shytalk

Good pic Chris48, I worked there from 1954 'till 1958. :handclap:
Do you have any more of Blakes?
03-22-2008
Saintess

Overhead Railway

I remember going to Liverpool on a school trip when I was about 10, one of the highlights was a trip on the overhead railway this was just before it closed down, but I still remember the excitement, having a father who loved trains helped me realise the importance and to really enjoy the experience,
06-18-2008
skgogosfan

"The time will come when Merseysiders must rue the day when they permitted the City Fathers to throttle the
lifeblood of this unique undertaking and in addition to scrap the last vestige of their remarkably
efficient tramway system."
H. Maxwell Roston (General Manager, Liverpool Overhead Railway

How right he was. I wonder if Peel's fancy monorail for Liverpool Waters will grab the same affection? If it ever gets built.

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Originally Posted by quincyg

took these August Bank holiday last year
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ture1193-1.jpg

not sure if these are remains of a station
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ture1200-1.jpg

I'm too young to have known the LOR but my dad always loved it. I've got books and a video about it. And as I result always had a soft sopt for it's history. Ironic then that 8 years ago when we moved I found out that the LOR ran along a little beyond the bottom of our garden before sweeping into Seaforth & Litherland Station.

Hmm not too sure it IS a LOR station. It looks like a viaduct for something heading into the docks. Where was it taken? It *may* be for the now-demolished goods line from Sandhills but I'd need the location to double check.

Dave.
06-19-2008
quincyg

Quote:

Originally Posted by skgogosfan

"The time will come when Merseysiders must rue the day when they permitted the City Fathers to throttle the
lifeblood of this unique undertaking and in addition to scrap the last vestige of their remarkably
efficient tramway system."
H. Maxwell Roston (General Manager, Liverpool Overhead Railway

How right he was. I wonder if Peel's fancy monorail for Liverpool Waters will grab the same affection? If it ever gets built.

Hmm not too sure it IS a LOR station. It looks like a viaduct for something heading into the docks. Where was it taken? It *may* be for the now-demolished goods line from Sandhills but I'd need the location to double check.

Dave.

cheers Dave, next time I'm over that way I'll get a more specific location for you.

there was a piece on NW Tonight tonight about the reconstruction they are doing for the new museum.
06-21-2008
ChrisO

Quincyg

Your second photo is the remaining bridge abutment for the high level coal line into Bramley-Moore Dock. The LOR went underneath this line in between Nelson Dock station & Sandon Dock station.
Look on the Subbrit. Disused Stations site, there's an entire section devoted to the LOR and you can see a map on either the Nelson station or the Sandon station bit, showing the coal railway crossing the dock road.
06-22-2008
quincyg

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisO

Quincyg

Your second photo is the remaining bridge abutment for the high level coal line into Bramley-Moore Dock. The LOR went underneath this line in between Nelson Dock station & Sandon Dock station.
Look on the Subbrit. Disused Stations site, there's an entire section devoted to the LOR and you can see a map on either the Nelson station or the Sandon station bit, showing the coal railway crossing the dock road.

thanks for that Chris much appreciated. :PDT_Piratz_26:
been away with a family emergency so only just catching up with posts.
10-18-2008
skgogosfan

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisO

Quincyg

Your second photo is the remaining bridge abutment for the high level coal line into Bramley-Moore Dock. The LOR went underneath this line in between Nelson Dock station & Sandon Dock station.
Look on the Subbrit. Disused Stations site, there's an entire section devoted to the LOR and you can see a map on either the Nelson station or the Sandon station bit, showing the coal railway crossing the dock road.

Thanks-now I know what it was too. ;)

Dave.
10-28-2008
Kev

dockers? umbrella

A JOURNEY on Liverpool?s famous historic overhead railway ? or ?dockers? umbrella? ? is to be reconstructed in a large-scale projection at the Pier Head from tonight. Read
10-28-2008
Paddy

Station to Station

I think it is a very interesting subject. You would be suprised how much interest there is in the Ovehead it was for its time a very advanced mode of transport they should have never pulled it down. It has been studied by city authorities all over the world.
10-28-2008
Waterways

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paddy

I think it is a very interesting subject. You would be suprised how much interest there is in the Ovehead it was for its time a very advanced mode of transport they should have never pulled it down. It has been studied by city authorities all over the world.

Chicago and New York predated it. But it was the first electric railway. Hamburg and Paris also had/have parts of their metro systems overhead like Liverpool's

Modern Monorails easily beat it and that is what Liverpool needs in the centre not trundling, outdated, old technology trams stuck in traffic.

Just what Liverpool needs. Fantastic!!!!

http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/Sydney04.jpg

http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/Sydney05.jpg

http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/Sydney07.jpg
10-28-2008
quincyg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kev

A JOURNEY on Liverpool?s famous historic overhead railway ? or ?dockers? umbrella? ? is to be reconstructed in a large-scale projection at the Pier Head from tonight. Read

BBC NEWS | England | Film of docks shown on tunnel

will try and get into town one evening to see it.
11-03-2008
quincyg

did anyone manage to see this?

I'm stuck in sick so I've missed it. shame it was only on a week. :sad:
11-13-2008
gregs dad

[IMG]http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...x/P1050343.jpg[/IMG]
Part of the Liverpool`s old overhead railway, took this as I was walking from Brunswick Station yesterday.

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