hi iam just about ready to start on my wirral closed lines and tunnels website page can anyone please help as i dont have much info on the wirral what closed lines are there and tunnels? a diagram would be a great help.
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hi iam just about ready to start on my wirral closed lines and tunnels website page can anyone please help as i dont have much info on the wirral what closed lines are there and tunnels? a diagram would be a great help.
here is a list of of closed lines & tunnels & few stations what i know of
- Birkenhead Woodside Station
- Birkenhead Town
- Monks Ferry
- Birkenhead Dock Branch
- Haymarket Tunnel,Birkenhead
- Hooton To West Kirby
- Seacombe Branch
- Grange Lane,Birkenhead
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- Shore Road Goods (Cheshire lines, immediately North of Woodside landing stage
- Dock Road Goods (CLC)
- Dock Road Goods (GCR), both on the Wallasey side of the Great Float, just West of Duke Street bridge.
- Huge marshalling yard, GWR, between Morpeth and Wallasey docks
- Dock Line to luggage boat section of Seacombe landing stage (disused in 1948)
- Bidston Dock, huge sidings and quayside loading tracks for iron ore trains to Summers's Steelworks.
- Cammell Laird sidings, used to bring steel plate into the shipyard.
A lot of those are largely forgotten because more used or longer surviving railways were nearby. I can recall being amazed to see inch thick steel plate curved up at an alarming degree while being unloaded from railcars at Lairds in 1974. I was flabbergasted at to how much energy must have been stored in that steel and what a huge dangerous business shipbuilding really is.
As to tunnels, I believe the tunnels to Woodside Station and to Monk's Ferry before than were both of the "cut and cover" types.
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Mollington Street Depot
...which, incidentally, I feel that the site should be redeveloped as Birkenhead Central high level mainline terminus - with 25kV OHLC electrification to Chester & Crewe! You could stick a big multistorey shopping & office concourse on top of it, if you want. :slywink:
Just had a look on your site, you say there may have been a tunnell between central & the museum. I can say that is wrong, they used a door at the back for the old trains. There is no way any railway company would build a tunnell just to deliver relics to a museum.