This has fascinated me ever since I was kid, we used to travel into town on the train and they would always slow right down around this area and I would wonder about what it all was down there.
There are steps down to the railway from high above all around there.
I have been lurking for a few days and it is absolutely fabulous what you are doing here to make people aware of their history and ancestry.
I joined after seeing the picture of St James Station and my boyfriend saying "See those steps, I have been down those hundreds of times"
He works on the railway and has access to the platforms and an interesting series of rooms that originally would have housed the station master and other platform staff. The rooms are located on the left of the photograph under the arched bridge (called bridge 6 on the schematic) and apparently contain general rubbish left by railway staff. He has promised to take some pictures of the rooms and surrounding area next time he is on days.
He thinks that if there was anything interesting such as signage or documents it would have been flogged by now but he will look anyway.
I have been lurking for a few days and it is absolutely fabulous what you are doing here to make people aware of their history and ancestry.
I joined after seeing the picture of St James Station and my boyfriend saying "See those steps, I have been down those hundreds of times"
He works on the railway and has access to the platforms and an interesting series of rooms that originally would have housed the station master and other platform staff. The rooms are located on the left of the photograph under the arched bridge (called bridge 6 on the schematic) and apparently contain general rubbish left by railway staff. He has promised to take some pictures of the rooms and surrounding area next time he is on days.
He thinks that if there was anything interesting such as signage or documents it would have been flogged by now but he will look anyway.
wow!!!!!!!!!!
thats monumental!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thats what i love about this forum! there is always someone who has some valuable info to share with everyone
I'm not an authority on Railways, but I've got some notes in my "Annals".
The stations at St Michael's, Otterspool and Mersey Road (now Aigburth) opened in 1864.
(I've no info on the others as far as Garston).
Central Station and St James' Station opened in 1874, but I don't know where the trains terminated in the previous 10 years.
It was said that St James Station was built for the congregation of St James Church, (which is just over the road), but that could be an urban myth.
St James closed in 1916 and Otterspool closed in 1951.
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I think there was/is a book that tried to have photos of all Liverpool's stations.
Central Library should know.
yeah thats a good site, seen that before.
They do some mad things thosE Sub Britannica people!
I bet Jona is a member!
Hehe I'm not, but all the places in Liverpool that are 'managed' by Sub Brit, I have a very high up friend in Liverpool City Council who can get me in them.
Sub Brit did contact me though when they heard about my underground adventures in the Air Raid Shelters next to Littlewoods on Edge Lane!
Hehe I'm not, but all the places in Liverpool that are 'managed' by Sub Brit, I have a very high up friend in Liverpool City Council who can get me in them.
Sub Brit did contact me though when they heard about my underground adventures in the Air Raid Shelters next to Littlewoods on Edge Lane!
ohhh i knew you would some sort of involvement!! he he
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