Liverpool Overhead Railway

[taffy]

LOR supports, Wapping.

Nice photos. Frances Morton and Co Ltd was of course based in Garston and was a major steel fabrication company. A particular speciality was prefabricated buildings, churches etc which they exported world wide. The business had its roots in Cable St Liverpool in 1766. Unfortunately like most of the original dockside industry in Garston, it is no more.

[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

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. Sorry Rant over.

Peace and Happiness.....Gaz

[Cadfael]

Fantastic footage there! I've got a load of scans from when they turned the Edge Hill cutting from a enclosed tunnel to what is now the 14 tunnels to Lime Street - I'll have to start editing em for here as they're 7mb each!

[drone_pilot]

Excellent stuff there Wato.

[Gerrysea]

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

Peace and Happiness.....Gaz

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!!

[phredd]

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

Phredd

[Wato]

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.
Hope you and yours are all well...
Peace and Happiness......Gaz

[Wato]

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

Phredd

Most welcome mate, speak soon

Peace and Happiness...Gaz

[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

[ChrisGeorge]

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

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

[Kev]

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

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. 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

[PhilipG]

[Kev]

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

[PhilipG]

Phil, what a superb pic . 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.

[taffy]

Interesting web site, worth a look

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/s...es/index.shtml