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Woodside Ferry Approach, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 6DA

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This page details the photographs taken nearby to Woodside Ferry Approach, CH41 6DA by members of the Geograph project.

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Woodside Station ? 1967
Despite many visits, this is the only photograph I have of the complete station, taken on the final day of operation, November 5 1967. Thereafter, trains to Chester started at Rock Ferry, with connection to the local electric service from Liverpool. The extent of the station reflected the fact that it was the Great Western Railway's terminus for Liverpool (albeit with ferry connection), and a suitably grandiose structure was considered appropriate. The Birkenhead Railway, of which it was the terminus, was a joint undertaking of the Great Western and London and North Western Railways.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 5 Nov 1967
0.03 miles
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Birkenhead Tramway
This is the Woodside terminus of the restored section of the Birkenhead Tramway, the original of which functioned from 1860 to 1937. The monolithic structure to the right is at the end of Pacific Road and is a ventilation shaft for one of the Mersey tunnels.
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 17 Jun 2007
0.03 miles
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Birkenhead Tramway
Taken looking in the opposite direction to Image the tramway divides here to provide two terminal bays. The tram lines are set in granite setts. The River Mersey is just visible over the wall to the left.
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 17 Jun 2007
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Woodside Tunnel
From the Arriva bus depot, the blocked eastern portal of the half-mile tunnel forming the final approach to the Woodside rail terminus is glimpsed between the girder overbridge carrying the extension of Church Street and an accumulation of spoil.
Image: © Tiger Taken: 7 Apr 2010
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Birkenhead Woodside Station
View towards buffer-stops, when this station was the principal main-line station in Birkenhead and the terminus (jointly owned by the GWR and LMSR before Nationalisation) of the main line from Chester, Birmingham and London (Paddington). The terminus and its short connecting branch from Blackpool Street was closed on 5/11/1967. Moderator comment (2021): The following views are taken from the identical viewpoint, firstly on the final night of operation, and secondly a view in 2010 of the redeveloped site. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6781976 and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1794669
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 21 May 1961
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Site of Birkenhead Woodside Station
Looking towards the site of the buffer stops nearly 49 years after Ben Brooksbank's photo from the same viewpoint Image See also Alan Murray-Rust's evocative nocturnal view taken on the station's last evening of operation Image Nothing remains of the Birkenhead Joint Railway's terminus except the base of the left-hand retaining wall to Chester Street. The line from Chester was a rare example of co-operation between arch-rivals the Great Western and the London & North Western companies, competing for the Wirral traffic against the Cheshire Lines Committee (an equally odd joint enterprise involving the Great Central, Great Northern and Midland railways). Opened in 1878 and demolished in 1968 (after which the remaining services from Chester and beyond terminated at Rock Ferry for connections to central Birkenhead and Liverpool, until the Merseyrail electrification was extended first to Hooton in 1985 and ultimately to Chester in 1993) the Woodside station was Robert Edward Johnson's architectural masterpiece and was regarded by Pevsner and Hubbard as "one of the few really good main-line termini outside London". Its surprisingly grand scale reflected its role as effectively the Great Western's Liverpool terminus, with passengers being ferried across the Mersey to arrive in some style at the Pier Head while those travelling with the less fortunate companies were plunged into the Stygian gloom of Lime Street. The platforms where the expresses from London and Birmingham drew up have been replaced by a makeshift car park and Arriva bus depot. The new building on the right, appropriately called Great Western House (the name chosen after a vote among the staff), was built in 1993 specifically to host the Child Support Agency (now the Child Maintenance Service). The tower-like structure left of centre provides ventilation for the Queensway road tunnel under the Mersey. Disused Stations http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/birkenhead_woodside/index.shtml Update: Alan informs me that in 2021 the car park was being used as a drive-in cinema.
Image: © Tiger Taken: 7 Apr 2010
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The last passenger train at Woodside ? 1967
Seen after arrival from Chester, October 5 1967. From now on passengers for Birkenhead would have to change onto the local electric service at Rock Ferry. The train is one of the units built by Metro Cammell, later Class 101, which were the most numerous type of DMU purchased by British Railways. The car in the picture, M51174, was among the very first to be produced.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 5 Nov 1967
0.04 miles
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Birkenhead Woodside railway station (site)
Opened in 1878 by the Birkenhead Joint Railway as a replacement station for the nearby Monk's Ferry station, this became the terminus of the line from London Paddington. The station closed in 1967. Looking away from the site of the buffers, one of the few remains is the large retaining wall on the right and the road bridge over where the station throat tracks would have been. View south west, although the line curved southwards from here. For a 1967 view from a similar camera position, see Image
Image: © Nigel Thompson Taken: 10 Aug 2008
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Birkenhead from the Mersey
The brick tower is part of Hamilton Square Station which is Grade II listed https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1218084 . To the left of the Woodside Ferry Terminal is a sectioned U-boat, U-534, sunk in May 1945, salvaged in 1993, and on display since 2009 as 'The U-Boat story' https://www.u-boatstory.co.uk/Pages/default.aspx
Image: © Jonathan Hutchins Taken: 1 Apr 2018
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Last departure from Woodside ? 1967
October 5 1967 saw the closure of Birkenhead Woodside station which had lost much of its importance following the cessation of through trains to London earlier in the year. For the last few months service were provided by diesel multiple unit trains. The gentlemen on the right is probably the station supervisor.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 5 Nov 1967
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