IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Railbrook Hey, LIVERPOOL, L13 1DL
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Railbrook Hey, L13 1DL by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (14 Images Found)
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Olive Mount Cutting
Looking west, the cutting is part of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The new works are the re-instating of the N to E part of Olive Mount Junction to give direct access to the line to Bootle and North Docks. The houses on the right are built on the site of the headshunt of the Edge Hill 'gridiron' of sidings.
Image: © Colin Pyle
Taken: 8 Oct 2009
0.01 miles
3
Mill Lane, Wavertree.
Looking north from a point on the bridge across Olive Mount Cutting.
Image: © Colin Pyle
Taken: 8 Oct 2009
0.10 miles
5
Rathbone Hospital, Liverpool
Situated in Mill Lane, Wavertree now houses the Department of Psychology, Mersey Care NHS Trust.
Image: © Sue Adair
Taken: 15 Aug 2005
0.14 miles
7
The lost chord is re-opened
Known as the Olive Mount Chord, the short stretch of track from here to just beyond the far portal has just been reinstated at a cost of £7.6m. It enables freight trains going to and from Seaforth and Bootle Docks to access the Liverpool - Manchester line directly, instead of spending 40 minutes shunting round at Edge Hill, where they had to cross busy passenger lines. As seen from the 12.01 from Newton-le-Willows.
Image: © David Long
Taken: 8 Oct 2009
0.17 miles
8
The Fifteen Guinea Special in Olive Mount Cutting ? 1968
This was the very last standard gauge steam passenger train operated by British Rail, on 11 August 1968, regular steam services having ended the previous weekend. The named was coined to reflect the cost of a ticket for the journey.
The train ran from Liverpool to Carlisle and return, travelling via Manchester, Blackburn and the Settle and Carlisle line. Between Liverpool and Manchester it was hauled by Stanier 'Black 5' 4-6-0 locomotive 45110, seen here passing through the iconic Olive Mount cutting on the outskirts of Liverpool. This was one of the major engineering works of the original Liverpool and Manchester of 1830, and would be no mean feat even in the 21st century. The relatively soft and homogeneous Bunter Sandstone meant that the cutting could be excavate with vertical sides which adds to the impressiveness.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 11 Aug 1968
0.17 miles
