[QUOTE=stan;53927]I always wondered where the Rice lane bridge led
hi stan
its a single line into the old british enka works, where there was a few sidings and they had there own little loco mainly coal would go in there
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mike
[QUOTE=stan;53927]I always wondered where the Rice lane bridge led
hi stan
its a single line into the old british enka works, where there was a few sidings and they had there own little loco mainly coal would go in there
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mike
hi stan
its a single line into the old british enka works, where there was a few sidings and they had there own little loco mainly coal would go in there
mike
Thanks for clearing that up.The Aintree bridge looks as though the Cheshire lines route branches off it looks as though it used to go through the racecourse.Just beyond that is a bridge that goes over the Alt which runs parallel to the alt viaduct (Leeds Liverpool canal).
On the subject of the loop,I took a ride down to maghull yesterday and noticed workmen erecting a fence ,closing off the track.When I asked why fences were being erected,they said "Sefton and Liverpool have been arguing over it".
Effing marvellous.
no probs
this one that went under bootle strand station, been searching for years for more pics of it, and cant find any,
it went under where the police station is, next to the strand bus depot, an was in a cutting under what is now the peugeot garage,
does anyone know of any pics of this area say before the 60s?
around strand road, stanley road area?
cheers
mike
this is the end of the tunnel, marked blue on the map above these days
can just see the two archways above the trees
mike
WOW thats amazing ive walked thoght that tunnel 1000 of times.
were there any stations along this rout or was it just fright?
wow thank you so much for them photos i have been looking everywhere for photos of this branch so i proves the land has been filledup a lot since the shopping centre was built so does this mean the other end of the tunnel is now blocked underground?
yep you can still see the top of it in the corner of the kids park, next to the tyre garage on marsh lane/beecher steet,
think they keep one end clear in case of any problems,
theres a underground walkway for the gasworks that goes across the tunnel underground, my dad said you could hear the workers walking above you if you where in the railway tunnel
think the line was still there when the strand shopping centre was there, it snaked between that and the police station,
what year did the strand open?
because i know the line didnt go till around 1969-70, and my arl man reckons it didnt get filled for a few years later,
mike
I've seen pictures of the walkway inside the tunnel on this forum somewhere...
I've got 'The Autocar' for 28 August 1959, and have photographed what was probably the first report on the Mini.
If anybody wants the original photos, pm me, because they're 2.5 Mb each.
Kev, if I've put this in the wrong place, would you move it, please?
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I can't unload the 6th pic at the moment.
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I'll try later.
Success at last!
Now, I can't delete this post!
Last edited by PhilipG; 06-10-2007 at 06:05 PM.
Mike, check out this link - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/map.aspx?compid=55207 or just go to British History Online/Maps. It's a collection of maps of Liverpool/Bootle from 1893. Open up the individual map tiles & the one for Bootle clearly shows the route of the branch from the docks to Hartley's Jam Factory. In addition it clearly shows the dozens of streets that then existed in & around Marsh Lane/Stanley Road/Strand Road etc.
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