Michael Delamar Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 John, its unfitted grey. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectroSoldier Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Ive so many questions to ask you all on this subject but not just about Viaduct junction. Is it better to ask here or start a new thread? A lot of the information and photos I would refer to in my questions are here so I was hoping to keep it here rather than start again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Sounds reasonable if its all part of the Edge Hill complex, where different topic will interlink. Go ahead from me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gridiron Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Fine with me. If anybody reading this has images of the flyover bridge it would be appreciated by those of us following this thread. I'm also looking for any images of the Gridiron and in particular the bridge that used to cross Rathbone Road and or the Coal Yard including the entrance all of which have now disappeared. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectroSoldier Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Ok. Im trying to build up a picture of what the area looked like, from what I can tell the track was at different levels depending on where it was, the highest of which was the Gridiron bridge, Ive marked that on the map with a light green colour. The next was the level that included Viaduct junction and the circular goods line, Ive marked it in red, the next level down was the shed level, which was only slightly higher than ground level which is orange, ground level being blue. If you look at this picture I am correct so far? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Looks good to me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Sounds reasonable. Edge Hill was a huge and complex area, and very difficult to get your head around. I worked there in the early 1970s and still struggle! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectroSoldier Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Does exhibition junction appear on that map? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectroSoldier Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 (edited) Ok, the circular goods line, once it crossed over the Bootle branch where did that go? I cant see it properly on that photo, did it pass into a tunnel? or was it a series of bridges and where did it come out? Edited February 22, 2015 by ElectroSoldier Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Perhaps these might help> http.doc 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectroSoldier Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 That first link is absolutely fantastic!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectroSoldier Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Been looking over that map all day nw, together with the pictures Ive got a good idea where I need to go now... In Speakland road goods, what is it for... I mean what did they used to do in that building?As far as I can tell its just a sidings with a building over the top of it... what was it like when you went inside was it just ballast and track or what and what were the others like? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 It was a parcels depot, the tracks were arranged parallel with conveyers and roadways for road traffic - the ubiquitous Scammel Scarab - in between. It came up on here within the last year in a topic on, I think, BRS depots, but I couldn't find it. Perhaps Michael Delamar could help on this one? Last time I went past, which was August last year, the 'skeleton' was still standing but the panels between had gone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectroSoldier Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Were all the goods depots the same LMS? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Edge hill shed, the camp, looking east 1968 https://flic.kr/p/rcrDCD 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40044 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Been looking over that map all day nw, together with the pictures Ive got a good idea where I need to go now... In Speakland road goods, what is it for... I mean what did they used to do in that building? As far as I can tell its just a sidings with a building over the top of it... what was it like when you went inside was it just ballast and track or what and what were the others like? Track inside the shed was mostly set in concrete. Last used in the early 1990s for wagon repairs, loading concrete troughing for Merseyrail resignalling, and the occasional ferryvan of potatoes off the train ferry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gridiron Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Electric traction on the Circular route was rare, and even worse on the Gridiron itself. In the late 1960's there was a Freightliner train most weekday nights about 2330hrs which used to emerge from the tunnel under the Gridiron heading south at relatively high speed given the sharp radius of the route. The resultant high pitch whistle sparked several stories in the Liverpool Echo about UFO's until I wrote in to splil the beans. Apart from the occasional boat train heading for Riverside Station at Princess Dock there were no passenger services along the route, although I also remember seeing on a couple of occasions class 503's in between barrier wagons being transferred from the Merseyrail network for repairs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Spekeland Road, R.I.P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundodger Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 image.jpgThanks for putting this map up, it puts every thing in place for me, I used to travel on train from Huyton to Liverpool. In the late sixties and could never work out where the loco sheds where, that was because it was higher up than the line I was on. Apart from that this has been a bit of a blast from the past, thank you guys. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectroSoldier Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 (edited) Forward the video to 2:35:16 to see the start of the Circular goods as accessed from the Liverpool - Weaver Junction line. Unfortunately the video pans the wrong way, but seeing it on video makes a nice change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roj6FOtb-oI Edited December 19, 2015 by ElectroSoldier 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 19, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2015 what a brilliant video, going back a few miles on it its worth watching to see crewe during remodelling, i can only really remember crewe station as it is now, amazing to see everything have to slow to 20mph to go through the station, and a 33 in the bay heading towards the north wales coast too (sorry for the thread divert!) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 God, that is just so depressing. So much had vanished since my days at Edge Hill, and so very much more has disappeared since that video wa made.I think I'll just go off and have a cry! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectroSoldier Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Thats how I remember most of it even today.When I look at Lime street I can still see parcel vans on siding E next to platform 7 being loaded up with little tractors and platforms 1-6 with a clear view of the concourse. It is amazing to see just how much has changed over the years though, especially Edge hill, the viaduct infront of the engine shed for instance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectroSoldier Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Any photos out there of the north side of the Gridiron? I believe that was where Exhibition junction signal box was. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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