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    MDHB book

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    Irwell Press

    Locomotives & Railways of the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board
    Regular price£16.95

    This book looks at the development of the dock railway and the large number of locomotives that worked on it. It is now over 40 years since the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Railway ceased to exist and, apart from the occasional magazine article or photo, nothing much of any consequence has appeared regarding this once famous dock system.Under the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, the Port of Liverpool stretched for seven and a half miles along the east side of the River Mersey, having been made up of some 35 docks built from 1715 until 1927. The docks ‘main line’ ran the length of its perimeter along the west side of the dock road from Herculaneum Dock in the South to Gladstone Dock at its northern limit but the docks themselves did not contain the sprawling network of tracks or any of the vast marshalling yards seen at the likes of London and Southampton. The MD&HB railway contented itself to be merely a haulier between the quaysides and the large number of railway company goods stations that had mushroomed along the east side of the dock road as the port expanded along the Mersey shore. These were, with a few exceptions, connected to the dock railway at various places along the way and became focal points of the docks traffic where freight was sorted and marshalled for onward transit.In 1904 an agreement had been reached which saw all docks traffic, between the quaysides and the railway depots, operated and administered by the Chief Traffic Manager of the MD&HB who employed a growing fleet of locomotives to convey the various railway company wagons together with its own internal stock. When this came into force the following year, it led to a highly organised and more economic system that ran until closure of the dock railway in 1973.

    Softback, 104 pages, well illustrated

    ISBN: 9781911262084

     

    Oxted model railway show 2017

    in Exhibitions

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    Apart from the roadside posters and the local papers, this event has also been given good coverage in the Limpsfield (Oxted) parish magazine.  It also appears on some Family Days Out sites.   So I think the marketing is building up.   I will be attending with a stall promoting the Engine Shed Society.  engineshedsociety.co.uk.

     

    Stephen Wolstenholme

    Archivist, ESS

    Atlantic Dock in 7mm

    in Layout topics

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    Please see my Pinterest board of images inspiring my planned 7mm diorama of the MDHB, Liverpool Overhead Railway and Riverside Branch lines at East Princes Half Tide Dock, Liverpool just before the Overhead Railway closed in 1956. Planning is in the early stages.   Research is the easy bit! Currently I am seeking any plans of the MDHB engine shed shown in the photo.  post-31042-0-29302600-1490561420.jpghttps://uk.pinterest.com/stephenwolstenh/inspiration-for-atlantic-dock-7mm-scale-diorama-of/

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    Model Rail April 2017

    in Other Magazines

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    Paul, I have followed your articles back over many years, even found them in MTI, and it is one reason I tend to buy Model Rail. I have had a few people ask about track, thinking of building something based in the Liverpool docks , but not necessarily the LOR itself. Probably more interest up this way, as would be expected, but I have been told there are drawing of the trains around. I seem to remember that either RM or MRC had them. Can't access my copies of RM, as they are down in my house in France, but will have a look when I get down there next.

    One way of doing the LOR might be to print a side image of one of the trains,and move it along a background.

    I am looking for drawings for all the other electric stock used in the are. The LMS era stuff , I have, but the older units would get me started on models of those units.

    The LOR carriage drawings were in MRC rather than RM.  i will look out my copy.  Thanks for your comments.

    Model Rail April 2017

    in Other Magazines

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    Hi Simon, Many thanks for your kind response.  If you ever get round to making a layout I have some scale elevations of the decking from the late 1800's, we hoped to put them in the article but ran out of space.  Kind regards Paul

    Hello

     

    I have posted LOR requests on this Forum as I am planning a 7mm dockside diorama with the LOR in the background.  I would be very interested to see elevations of the LOR structures please, as I cannot visit the plans in the Liverpool record office.  Thanks.  Stephenwolstenholme@talk21.com.

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