There's something nostalgically evocative about old railways, I remember as a child walking along the disused railway sidings of the ‘Halewood triangle that still had signal boxes and old coal wagons, great for exploring. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Thank YOU very much; As a kid growing up on Isle of Wight, I always used to sing thank u very much for the "entry" iron. Now I know & what's in an accent !
The North Mersey Branch line was scheduled to be a part of Merseyrail with a few stations on it, one named _Giro,_ at the Giro bank complex. Sefton Council have continually lobbied for its reopening. About one third of Merseyrail was cancelled by Thatcher forty years ago - in the meantime London has had: the DLR, Overground, Underground extensions, Thameslink, Crossrail, etc. Miles and miles of trackbed and tunnels are awaiting trains in the Liverpool City Region, with even an underground burrowing junction and header tunnels built awaiting connection to the network, south of Central underground station. We are building HS2, but Liverpool is still waiting for tracks and trains. The North Mersey Branch line is reserved for reuse, with Merseytravel having long term aspirations for its use. It was used until recently by slow moving maintenance trains, hence why the tracks are still in place. It was once electrified 3rd rail, with Liverpool Overhead trains reaching Aintree.
While I understand your comment we have to be grateful of what we have, we have a great rail network here in Liverpool, cities like Leeds are very isolated and nowhere near as good as us.
@@sloth-gaming Grateteful for what we have? So we should stand there cap in hand that Boris Trump has not ripped it all up? The city's rail infrastructure is extensive with some of the oldest, and unique, historical railway infrastructure in the world. All we want is to have what was promised, *and started,* 40 odd years ago. To give the city region the metro it deserves. We have to fight to get it all reused.
@@flippop101 If the underground burrowing junction south of Central station was flyovers on the surface, it would have been used decades ago because people can see it. Insisting it be used. The expensive to build junction, laying there unused, is out of sight, so out of mind. The city needs the junction connected to the Wapping tunnel ASAP. It connect the eastern section of the city to the central underground section. It creates an east- west _crossrail,_ say from Wigan to West Kirkby, if the stock interchange tunnel between Central and James St is used for passenger trains. The Liverpool to Wigan line was supposed to be on Merseyrail, but it was not electrified. It was electrified with wires in 2015. It never transfered to Merseyrail. Now the new Class 777 trains can use wires, there is no plan to transfer the line to Merseyrail, because the trains cannot easily get to the maintenance depot at Kirkdale.
@@johnburns4017 no. What I'm saying is that in the North especially there are areas with little to no local commuter rail, like I said with Leeds. Liverpool has a fairly reliable commuter rail network for UK standards with pre coving trains per 15 minutes, there's plans to extend the network and there already building new station's the new trains will be out this year (if they can pull there fingers out) what was exactly promised 40 years ago? Because alot of liverpools rail that closed just wasn't economically viable
You could see my house from the first Viaduct. I used to use the track to get home from school and in recent years, it's been used as an ambush for the unsuspecting, notably for the spate of 'Buttock shootings' a few years back. You would have to get me very very high to make me want to walk any part of that route. Fair play to you young man. Top work Fella.
Just make my morning coffee, turned on the lap top and what was waiting just for me---a new "Bee Here Now" video. When were the sleepers changed from wood to concrete? What a great day for a adventure, nothing like a long walk on a perfect day. Your videos are so enjoyable to watch, the way you look around while you narrate to the camera makes it feel like were walking around with you. Happy three year youtube anniversary.... Stay strong, Stay safe.
Mad me watching this. Five or more years ago when I was a builder we was asked to do a job in a back garden in Aintree. My boss asked the customer for the planning. Customer didn't think it was needed. Customer applied for planning permission and got it. Boss checked the deeds on the land and ten foot of his garden goes over the line, I can't remember the full stipulation but anything he did in the ten foot was at risk of being demolished in the future for the line. I just looked on google maps for the job, was at Roseworth ave and the line runs through seventeen gardens. At the back of the gardens there's a five foot gap all the way along.
Loved watching this . We used to walk ‘the raller’ daily on our way to school (St Wilfrids) which is no longer there. I remember being able to see down the entire length of the black bridge - st Wilfrids stretch. On rare occasions a Diesel engine would appear in the distance, causing a group of boys to scramble to find a way off the raller to avoid the mythical ‘raller police’ 🤣. Very happy days
Them Mythical police exist, I was caught and brought into offices at Lime Street (transport police) and cautioned and told if I was caught again I'd be fined.
Until 1953 that section was electrified and there was an alternative Liverpool to Ormskirk route. Also at Aintree Central it connected with a Cheshire lines route to Southport Lord Street station with trains from Liverpool and Manchester.
So glad you did this. I spent many years as a child wondering where this line went. I remember the bridge heading into the docks before it was demolished. The advent of Google Earth allowed me to follow the lines from above. This bridge pretty much got my hooked on historic railways. Thanks for the video.
I’ve walked some of the closed lines in the Stoke area where the track is still there. Fighting your way through the undergrowth but with the track still there to guide you along the correct route.
Love these videos. Abandoned railways are the most enchanted of places. Even in the early 1960's we would hang out in such places full of birds and butterflies and remnants of days gone by.
Really nice to see , there are still old railway lines left behind to explore . Like you're presenting style , giving a history of the line as your walking around the old track bed and bridge's .
How rare to find an abandoned line with intact rails! Interesting to see check rails here and there (those third rails, installed to keep the flanges on track). Particularly liked you earth 3D exposition intro. 😉
I’ve found loads of old rail systems especially around kirkdale where I’m from there was a line on what we call the ralla the back of the kirkdale depot
We used to walk that line home from school as a short cutwhich has since been demolished (St Wilfrid's) I was caught one time and brought into offices at Lime St to be given a caution and since it was my 1st time being caught I was let off with the fine.
I’ve fancied walking this short section for years as I’ve studied its history, definitely a challenge with all that vegetation, you’ve saved me the trip, great vid 👍
Loved this vidio I was brought up in Fazakerley used to go over what we called the dizzy steps whiich took you to the Aintree shunting sheds, my father inlaw was a train driver at these sheds, I used to play football for Aintree SS the the pitch ran along side the Ormskirk line access to the ground was down Helsby rd, I now live in Durley Rd with the Kirkby line at the bottom of my garden great memories.
Great video, recently moved to Formby and noticed when traveling out of Liverpool central on the train, those old rails, might have to have a stroll along some time!
Really enjoyed the video, it's just a shame you didn't go and actually show the junction. Are the points for the branch still in place or has it been taken up? I looking forward to another explore.
At the Aintree end, the tracks don’t finish there either. They continue across the field and to between the new housing estate and warehousing. The tracks ran right through to Dunnings Bridge Rd and could be see before they started building Mersey Reach Estate! I even have pics and of the old factory foundations!
The tracks on the branch still carry on to the west platforms at Aintree Sefton Arms station whereas the "main line " carried on to the ex L & Y line to Wigan Wallgate after Aintree Racecourse station and the extensive sidings.
I remember being on a Merseyrail train approaching Bootle New Strand around 1990 and seeing a Class 37 come over the bridge and run alongside us whe this line was still used ocacsionally. Later I saw the running connection at Ormskirk allowing access from the Preston direction (now long since lifted).
Not far from me where you ended, you could have carried on a little bit to Aintree station and finished with a view of Aintree Racecourse. Hopped over the fence and got the train home.👍
Great video. I love stuff like this that shows nothing is permanent! Places that once seemed so important left to fade back to nature are fascinating. Really good watch thanks
The new 3rd rail/battery hybrid Class 777 Merseyrail trains have been suggested to use the line. No expensive electrification is needed, as the trains will be running on batteries. A station was suggested. Whether it will be double tracked or remain single will be seen. The line would not be used a lot so single track may stay.
great stuff, I always pass the line were in branches off and upwards when I am on the train to Southport, it's still marked on most maps and I think it's not technically abandoned just unused by Merseyrail as they have no use of it
As always a very informatve video Ollie I used to work trains along there in the early seventies to Fazakerley and Aintree liner it didnt look like that then amazing how nature reclaims land. ( It was on a Merseyrail site that a trespasser was seen up there I don't know if that was you )
Great video, brought back lots of memories when we were kids we used to lean over the bridge abutments, I think it was the bridge with the everton graffiti on it and wait for the stream trains to come under one side of the bridge get covered in smoke and sparks then see who could beat the train to the other side. It would be great to see the line brought back to life or opened up as a footpath or cycle way.
Look at that, all that struggling through all that undergrowth in all that sun and not a drop of sweat in sight! If I tried it I would be lucky if I could get a few hundred yards without my head absolutely EXPLODING like versuvius with absolutely APPALLING profuse sweat, and that's what happened when I tried to cross the short viaduct at Clifton some years ago.
Very enoyable, just one slight criticism - If you could have named the roads which used those viaducts would have helped. As a local I could have had a better idea of the location. Nontheless well done. I have subscibed. :)
A cracking video. We used to have jobs down to Aintree Liner Depot, from Garston. Some great still photo`s there mate, especially the Class 40 with the lifted track panels. I have worked on the Railway for over 30 years and I still find this stuff interesting, it`s like looking into the past. To think that some of the lads, I worked with, that would have been part of their daily working life.
My playground growing up here in litherland and next to viaduct the track went straight on towards the docks over the Liverpool Southport line but they pulled the section down over the line also the first bridge you stopped at used to be a station .
What I am very surprised at is the fact that the rails are still there and that the land, like most of the rest of the land that became vacant after the vandals destroyed our railway system, has not been flogged off for yet another housing estate development.
at 14:41 the map shows the shunting depot and turntable just where the two maps are joined there is a little circle which was the turntable....the Aintree Iron....Used to play on it as a kid. and go and watch the whippet racers roughly where it says Bull Lane on the map
And now Peel ports want to build a dual carriageway from near the end of the M57, across Rimrose Valley Park, past local housing causing so much upheaval and pollution, why don't they at least reinstate some of these lines to get into the docks?
If I recall from my one visit there Aintree has two out of use platforms to the west of the current ones?The other stations Merseyrail serve with non passenger platforms are;James Street, Rock Ferry , Hooton and Chester.
Used to go to the black bridge when I was a kid, n go through a hole in the ground to the metal beams underneath, you could sit there with the Southport train going right underneath you
Brilliant video ,can I ask how I can access the maps you showed at 9.14 and 9.37 as they are of particular interest to me as I come from Walton and have relatives near the stand park farm in croxteth . Many thanks
Thanks very much 😊 The first map just popped up on Google when I first searched for info about the line so sorry I don't remember where it was. The second map is from National Library of Scotland side by side maps online
Hi just watched this and the rustic pole structure you pointed out belongs to me one of your subscribers if you would like to see my set up put in the cat and ferret the extention on to the railway embankment is play area for them cheers your videos are boss I also have done videos of train tunnels kirkdale years a go one day I'll put them on u tube keep the good work up I love watching them thanks
Ah no way that's so funny. I really liked the structure. It's nice it's for the cat and ferret to have a run around. Yeah your should put your videos on youtube definitely
@@BeeHereNowuk Hi mate, this is my other channel I mentioned here. When you get some free time, feel free to check out our channel and this video that goes a into a bit more detail about the enclosure you came across. Hope you enjoy seeing a little bit of what's going on there ua-cam.com/video/YS4TYbviJ6c/v-deo.html
Superb videos as always, been waiting a while for someone to cover this one, only one left in Liverpool I haven’t seen done yet is Cheshire Lines Committee - Southport to Hunts Cross, big project yes because of the long route but I think you could be the man for the job! 🤩
Used to walk the dogs along here in the 90's, amazing how quick nature reclaims everything.
How did you get on the tracks?
There's something nostalgically evocative about old railways, I remember as a child walking along the disused railway sidings of the ‘Halewood triangle that still had signal boxes and old coal wagons, great for exploring.
Thanks for sharing. 👍
The Google Earth images were impressive. The weather looked lovely. Really enjoyed this explore. Thanks for this video.
Thank you very much for the Aintree Iron
Thank YOU very much; As a kid growing up on Isle of Wight, I always used to sing thank u very much for the "entry" iron. Now I know & what's in an accent !
The North Mersey Branch line was scheduled to be a part of Merseyrail with a few stations on it, one named _Giro,_ at the Giro bank complex. Sefton Council have continually lobbied for its reopening.
About one third of Merseyrail was cancelled by Thatcher forty years ago - in the meantime London has had: the DLR, Overground, Underground extensions, Thameslink, Crossrail, etc. Miles and miles of trackbed and tunnels are awaiting trains in the Liverpool City Region, with even an underground burrowing junction and header tunnels built awaiting connection to the network, south of Central underground station. We are building HS2, but Liverpool is still waiting for tracks and trains.
The North Mersey Branch line is reserved for reuse, with Merseytravel having long term aspirations for its use. It was used until recently by slow moving maintenance trains, hence why the tracks are still in place. It was once electrified 3rd rail, with Liverpool Overhead trains reaching Aintree.
While I understand your comment we have to be grateful of what we have, we have a great rail network here in Liverpool, cities like Leeds are very isolated and nowhere near as good as us.
@@sloth-gaming
Grateteful for what we have?
So we should stand there cap in hand that Boris Trump has not ripped it all up?
The city's rail infrastructure is extensive with some of the oldest, and unique, historical railway infrastructure in the world.
All we want is to have what was promised, *and started,* 40 odd years ago. To give the city region the metro it deserves. We have to fight to get it all reused.
Good comment John Burns!
@@flippop101
If the underground burrowing junction south of Central station was flyovers on the surface, it would have been used decades ago because people can see it. Insisting it be used. The expensive to build junction, laying there unused, is out of sight, so out of mind.
The city needs the junction connected to the Wapping tunnel ASAP. It connect the eastern section of the city to the central underground section. It creates an east- west _crossrail,_ say from Wigan to West Kirkby, if the stock interchange tunnel between Central and James St is used for passenger trains.
The Liverpool to Wigan line was supposed to be on Merseyrail, but it was not electrified. It was electrified with wires in 2015. It never transfered to Merseyrail. Now the new Class 777 trains can use wires, there is no plan to transfer the line to Merseyrail, because the trains cannot easily get to the maintenance depot at Kirkdale.
@@johnburns4017 no. What I'm saying is that in the North especially there are areas with little to no local commuter rail, like I said with Leeds. Liverpool has a fairly reliable commuter rail network for UK standards with pre coving trains per 15 minutes, there's plans to extend the network and there already building new station's the new trains will be out this year (if they can pull there fingers out) what was exactly promised 40 years ago? Because alot of liverpools rail that closed just wasn't economically viable
You could see my house from the first Viaduct. I used to use the track to get home from school and in recent years, it's been used as an ambush for the unsuspecting, notably for the spate of 'Buttock shootings' a few years back.
You would have to get me very very high to make me want to walk any part of that route. Fair play to you young man. Top work Fella.
Just make my morning coffee, turned on the lap top and what was waiting just for me---a new "Bee Here Now" video. When were the sleepers changed from wood to concrete? What a great day for a adventure, nothing like a long walk on a perfect day. Your videos are so enjoyable to watch, the way you look around while you narrate to the camera makes it feel like were walking around with you. Happy three year youtube anniversary.... Stay strong, Stay safe.
Great video - I really enjoyed seeing the old maps included for context 🙂
Enjoyed this- thank you! I worked as a BR apprentice for three months at Fazakerley sidings in the earl eighties, very good memories!
Loved watching this. You started out 5 minutes away from where I live near Seaforth. Really interesting to watch, thank you
I lived in litherland. Where are you now
Mad me watching this.
Five or more years ago when I was a builder we was asked to do a job in a back garden in Aintree.
My boss asked the customer for the planning. Customer didn't think it was needed.
Customer applied for planning permission and got it.
Boss checked the deeds on the land and ten foot of his garden goes over the line, I can't remember the full stipulation but anything he did in the ten foot was at risk of being demolished in the future for the line.
I just looked on google maps for the job, was at Roseworth ave and the line runs through seventeen gardens.
At the back of the gardens there's a five foot gap all the way along.
Loved watching this . We used to walk ‘the raller’ daily on our way to school (St Wilfrids) which is no longer there. I remember being able to see down the entire length of the black bridge - st Wilfrids stretch. On rare occasions a Diesel engine would appear in the distance, causing a group of boys to scramble to find a way off the raller to avoid the mythical ‘raller police’ 🤣. Very happy days
The Raller love it !
Them Mythical police exist, I was caught and brought into offices at Lime Street (transport police) and cautioned and told if I was caught again I'd be fined.
Haha the mythical raller jacks
Just got into these videos by accident and really enjoying seeing a different history of my city.
Until 1953 that section was electrified and there was an alternative Liverpool to Ormskirk route. Also at Aintree Central it connected with a Cheshire lines route to Southport Lord Street station with trains from Liverpool and Manchester.
Nice work. Knowing those kind of places are the haunts of “scally youth’s “ leaves you open to being mollested..
So glad you did this. I spent many years as a child wondering where this line went. I remember the bridge heading into the docks before it was demolished. The advent of Google Earth allowed me to follow the lines from above. This bridge pretty much got my hooked on historic railways. Thanks for the video.
I’ve walked some of the closed lines in the Stoke area where the track is still there. Fighting your way through the undergrowth but with the track still there to guide you along the correct route.
Binge watching your videos rn. All the tunnels under Liverpool, what an amazing city above and below. Great work!
The line from Sefton Junction to Fazakerley has mostly been given over to Housing especially around Aintree Loco Shed.
I believe the footpath still exists though?
Love these videos. Abandoned railways are the most enchanted of places. Even in the early 1960's we would hang out in such places full of birds and butterflies and remnants of days gone by.
At point 6.06 you are at the old Linacre Road station. You can still see the platforms either side
Another really interesting journey - thanks for getting all the scratches and arachnid action on our behalf! Best wishes J & S
Really nice to see , there are still old railway lines left behind to explore .
Like you're presenting style , giving a history of the line as your walking around the old track bed and bridge's .
It’s officially mothballed, opposed to closed. They ran a loco on a gauging trip along here in the early noughties.
I did wonder why the track hadn't been lifted. So many disused lines seem to have the track lifted almost immediately.
Thanks for doiing that arduous walk. Would love to see that openned up for something.
Fantastic video thanks for battling through that undergrowth 👍
How rare to find an abandoned line with intact rails!
Interesting to see check rails here and there (those third rails, installed to keep the flanges on track).
Particularly liked you earth 3D exposition intro. 😉
Abandoned railways can be fascinating, peaceful, deserted, an oasis (in parts) yet just feet from the bustle of normal human life.
Another great video Ollie, many thanks.
Well done young man! Good exercise. Start a campaign to relaunch the freight traffic!
Happy Days!
I’ve found loads of old rail systems especially around kirkdale where I’m from there was a line on what we call the ralla the back of the kirkdale depot
Brilliant .The one you did at carrington was super as well.
another sound video really interesting ,very well put together as always
Brill video. Loved the pic of the EWS class 37. 👍
Nice one again - great for not giving up and interesting for me as I have family nearby...
We used to walk that line home from school as a short cutwhich has since been demolished (St Wilfrid's) I was caught one time and brought into offices at Lime St to be given a caution and since it was my 1st time being caught I was let off with the fine.
I’ve fancied walking this short section for years as I’ve studied its history, definitely a challenge with all that vegetation, you’ve saved me the trip, great vid 👍
Why was the spur closed? Would be useful diversionary route. What I love about the north is that so much is intact, rather than just sad abutments.
Love old rail tracks spent years walking the old route in Ireland 🇮🇪
Loved this vidio I was brought up in Fazakerley used to go over what we called the dizzy steps whiich took you to the Aintree shunting sheds, my father inlaw was a train driver at these sheds, I used to play football for Aintree SS the the pitch ran along side the Ormskirk line access to the ground was down Helsby rd, I now live in Durley Rd with the Kirkby line at the bottom of my garden great memories.
Great video, recently moved to Formby and noticed when traveling out of Liverpool central on the train, those old rails, might have to have a stroll along some time!
Great video as always. Thank you Ollie
'Gorse: Nature's razor wire' 😂
Really enjoyed the video, it's just a shame you didn't go and actually show the junction. Are the points for the branch still in place or has it been taken up? I looking forward to another explore.
Thanks mate, it's great what you do and your great at doing it 👍
Have you been along the old railway that runs along the back of Alderhay hospital and through part of Notty Ash.
Now I know why there’s been no railtours booked to do this line of recent!
When was last train
@@Truerealism747I’m afraid I ain’t got a clue.
In 2010 a Maintenance Train used the line as a one off but back then it wasn't very overgrown
At the Aintree end, the tracks don’t finish there either. They continue across the field and to between the new housing estate and warehousing. The tracks ran right through to Dunnings Bridge Rd and could be see before they started building Mersey Reach Estate! I even have pics and of the old factory foundations!
Really enjoying the videos....thanks for sharing your explorations 😊
Fantastic videos you have. Nice to see my home city’s hidden gems. Love your historical notes as well. Keep it up.
Fascinating video, I was aware of it's existance but great to see how it was
Another great sunny vlog. Thanks. 👍🏻
This would make a wonderful walking and biking trail.
@@jamescrab4110 Why not?
It would make an even better fully functioning metro line.
The tracks on the branch still carry on to the west platforms at Aintree Sefton Arms station whereas the "main line " carried on to the ex L & Y line to Wigan Wallgate after Aintree Racecourse station and the extensive sidings.
you do some very good work thanks
I remember being on a Merseyrail train approaching Bootle New Strand around 1990 and seeing a Class 37 come over the bridge and run alongside us whe this line was still used ocacsionally. Later I saw the running connection at Ormskirk allowing access from the Preston direction (now long since lifted).
Well done Ollie, another superb well researched video looking forward to the next one👍
Not far from me where you ended, you could have carried on a little bit to Aintree station and finished with a view of Aintree Racecourse. Hopped over the fence and got the train home.👍
Yeah i didn't even think about it. I was too tired haha
Great video. I love stuff like this that shows nothing is permanent! Places that once seemed so important left to fade back to nature are fascinating.
Really good watch thanks
Thank you very much
The new 3rd rail/battery hybrid Class 777 Merseyrail trains have been suggested to use the line. No expensive electrification is needed, as the trains will be running on batteries. A station was suggested. Whether it will be double tracked or remain single will be seen. The line would not be used a lot so single track may stay.
We're did you find this out interesting
Interesting. Thanks
Would be great if it could be reused for something! Seems to shame to see all that work hidden.
It really needs to be reopened to serve the docks.
Why do old abandoned railway lines always seem to attract silver birch trees? Who plants them? And why aren’t there other trees?
great stuff, I always pass the line were in branches off and upwards when I am on the train to Southport, it's still marked on most maps and I think it's not technically abandoned just unused by Merseyrail as they have no use of it
As always a very informatve video Ollie I used to work trains along there in the early seventies to Fazakerley and Aintree liner it didnt look like that then amazing how nature reclaims land. ( It was on a Merseyrail site that a trespasser was seen up there I don't know if that was you )
Great video, brought back lots of memories when we were kids we used to lean over the bridge abutments, I think it was the bridge with the everton graffiti on it and wait for the stream trains to come under one side of the bridge get covered in smoke and sparks then see who could beat the train to the other side. It would be great to see the line brought back to life or opened up as a footpath or cycle way.
Look at that, all that struggling through all that undergrowth in all that sun and not a drop of sweat in sight! If I tried it I would be lucky if I could get a few hundred yards without my head absolutely EXPLODING like versuvius with absolutely APPALLING profuse sweat, and that's what happened when I tried to cross the short viaduct at Clifton some years ago.
Cracking vid that la , my neck of the woods .
What a great video, thanks for sharing your adventure.
That last photo you showed in Bootle under the bridge, I live 5 minutes away on Scott Street next to the Best One shop on Knowsley Road.
Walked this line a few times me self I know this part of Liverpool very well
Very enoyable, just one slight criticism - If you could have named the roads which used those viaducts would have helped. As a local I could have had a better idea of the location. Nontheless well done. I have subscibed. :)
A cracking video. We used to have jobs down to Aintree Liner Depot, from Garston. Some great still photo`s there mate, especially the Class 40 with the lifted track panels. I have worked on the Railway for over 30 years and I still find this stuff interesting, it`s like looking into the past. To think that some of the lads, I worked with, that would have been part of their daily working life.
I noticed the EE type 4 too . Great stuff.
My playground growing up here in litherland and next to viaduct the track went straight on towards the docks over the Liverpool Southport line but they pulled the section down over the line also the first bridge you stopped at used to be a station .
My Mum came from Litherland
Nice job. Really enjoyed this.
What I am very surprised at is the fact that the rails are still there and that the land, like most of the rest of the land that became vacant after the vandals destroyed our railway system, has not been flogged off for yet another housing estate development.
at 14:41 the map shows the shunting depot and turntable just where the two maps are joined there is a little circle which was the turntable....the Aintree Iron....Used to play on it as a kid. and go and watch the whippet racers roughly where it says Bull Lane on the map
My dad told me about the turntable there, there was also a junction box and an engine shed too
I used to live on a house in Walton andthe goods line from the docks went under the house,you could hear the rumbling of the trains0
Great video
Walked this today, being Winter alot less vegetation. Was a great explore mind.
I grew up in Bootle. Used to play on that viaduct
Good job of getting through that bramble etc. well done
Good job, excellent video thank you 🤸🤸😃
I live under the short viaduct and was always up on the track when it was very active
At 15.06 it looks like the bridle road section which was once the rail section into the old container base .
legend has it, it is still an active line, the train in typical Mersey rail fashion, is just late.
Another great video - thankyou.
And now Peel ports want to build a dual carriageway from near the end of the M57, across Rimrose Valley Park, past local housing causing so much upheaval and pollution, why don't they at least reinstate some of these lines to get into the docks?
Cracking vid 👍👍👍
If I recall from my one visit there Aintree has two out of use platforms to the west of the current ones?The other stations Merseyrail serve with non passenger platforms are;James Street, Rock Ferry , Hooton and Chester.
Used to go to the black bridge when I was a kid, n go through a hole in the ground to the metal beams underneath, you could sit there with the Southport train going right underneath you
Great video mate, love it 😍
There is a survey chart of this line and it followed the canal system to the unload area for the barges
Excellent video! Made my Sunday!
Hiya,have you mentioned the old coastal railway from Southport to Liverpool...?
Great to see the history....;-)
Brilliant video ,can I ask how I can access the maps you showed at 9.14 and 9.37 as they are of particular interest to me as I come from Walton and have relatives near the stand park farm in croxteth . Many thanks
Thanks very much 😊 The first map just popped up on Google when I first searched for info about the line so sorry I don't remember where it was. The second map is from National Library of Scotland side by side maps online
Hi just watched this and the rustic pole structure you pointed out belongs to me one of your subscribers if you would like to see my set up put in the cat and ferret the extention on to the railway embankment is play area for them cheers your videos are boss I also have done videos of train tunnels kirkdale years a go one day I'll put them on u tube keep the good work up I love watching them thanks
Ah no way that's so funny. I really liked the structure. It's nice it's for the cat and ferret to have a run around. Yeah your should put your videos on youtube definitely
Thanks for the reply l will put them vids up don't forget put the cat and ferret in it's on u tube thanks again cherrs
@@BeeHereNowuk Hi mate, this is my other channel I mentioned here. When you get some free time, feel free to check out our channel and this video that goes a into a bit more detail about the enclosure you came across. Hope you enjoy seeing a little bit of what's going on there
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Superb videos as always, been waiting a while for someone to cover this one, only one left in Liverpool I haven’t seen done yet is Cheshire Lines Committee - Southport to Hunts Cross, big project yes because of the long route but I think you could be the man for the job! 🤩
Surprised how the extensive vegetation hasn't damaged the structure of the viaduct.
This should become a heritage railway before its totally lost