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From Birkenhead North station platform
Looking halfway to Birkenhead Park station. Underneath, nearest, Ilchester Road, Buccleuch Street &, furthest, Lincoln Street girder road bridges. Formerly known as 'bomb alley' to train drivers, due to the nature of having to travel underneath the bridges, in one of the roughest parts of Birkenhead, before the River Street houses were demolished. The redbrick tunnel archway, barely visible in the distance, goes beneath Corporation Road.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 5 Sep 2004
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Waste ground off Lincoln Road, Birkenhead
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 1 Mar 2014
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Laird Street at Lansdowne Road junction
Image: © Colin Pyle
Taken: 14 Sep 2012
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Lincoln Road, Birkenhead
Looking north east towards Beaufort Road.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 1 Mar 2014
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Factory on Lincoln Road, Birkenhead
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 1 Mar 2014
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Signals, Birkenhead North railway station
Viewed from the opposite side of the rarely-used line to platform 1, though otherwise the same as
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Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 7 Jun 2014
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Birkenhead North Station
The view from the Ilchester Road overbridge, looking down the line towards West Kirby and New Brighton. In the 49 years since Ben Brooksbank's historic photo http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1802063 the through line on the right has been removed along with the semaphore signals, telegraph poles and canopy to the footbridge. Perhaps the most noticeable change between the two photos (taken in the same month) is the encroachment of trees and shrubs on both banks of the cutting. All the houses to the right have been demolished and those in the distance have been replaced by the Bidston Moss recycling centre.
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 9 May 2010
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Signals, Birkenhead North railway station
Signals ML566 and ML568 are at the eastern end of the island platform.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 7 Jun 2014
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West Kirby train at Birkenhead North
On a sunny afternoon, Merseyrail electric unit 508 141 pauses at Birkenhead North on its way from Liverpool to West Kirby. Introduced in 1980 on inner suburban services from London Waterloo, the 508s migrated to the Wirral lines of Merseyrail around five years later to replace 1930s vintage stock. They were built as four car units, but were reduced to three when they moved, the spare intermediate cars being used in the class 455 units that replaced them (giving those units an uneven roof profile).
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 26 Jun 2010
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Lone House
This area used to be filled with terraced housing like this house. I think that the area was designated as an area for redevelopment in the 1950s-1970s and it looks as if all the residents except this house accepted the compensation. The roads marked on the map between Ilchester Road and Lincoln Street are no longer in use and are blocked by similar barriers to those in the foreground of this picture.
Image: © David Quinn
Taken: 16 Mar 2008
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