Hornby Magazine June 2016

[Ruffnut Thorston]

Railway Realism Hornby Magazine June 2016.

 

Pages 108 and 109

 

I have spotted a couple of errors in the captions to two photos in this article.

 

 

The photo of Birkenhead Central Station is looking towards Birkenhead Hamilton Square Station (and Liverpool), and the train (Number 29) in the platform is heading for Liverpool Central, FROM Rock Ferry. The Mersey Railway “drove on the left”, the same as most British Railways.

 

The Mersey Railway, as finally extended, ran from Rock Ferry Station (on the "Birkenhead Joint" railway from Chester to Birkenhead Woodside Station) to Liverpool Central Low Level (Under the Cheshire Lines Committee Liverpool Central Station) via Birkenhead Central and Hamilton Square, with a branch from Hamilton Square to join the Wirral Railway at Birkenhead Park Station.

 

 

Page 109

 

The Ex LMS Electric Train arriving at Southport had most probably departed from Liverpool Exchange, the former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Terminus.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Exchange_railway_station

 

The “link line” to Liverpool Central (Former Mersey Railway Low Level station) was not opened until 1977, as part of the “Loop and Link” project.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merseyrail

 

There was no through electric line from Liverpool Central (Cheshire Lines Committee) or the Mersey Railway and Southport in 1964.

 

The (not electrified) CLC line trains from Liverpool Central served Southport Lord Street Station.