Liverpool Overhead Railway

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.

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

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.

Blakes Hardman Street Circa 1950

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

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,

"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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

Dave.

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

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.

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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.

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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

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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

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BBC NEWS | England | Film of docks shown on tunnel

will try and get into town one evening to see it.