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Penarth Close, LIVERPOOL, L7 3QW

Liverpool City Council calls this Crown Street playground but it's the far side of the park from there (seen in the background, with the Anglican Cathedral above). To the right is Image

Crown Street station was one of the first two railway stations in the world, along with Liverpool Road station, Manchester, which survives. Crown Street was superseded by Lime Street station in Liverpool in 1836 but became a goods depot. Until the reinstatement of the Olive Mount Chord in 2008, an old tunnel to Crown Street was used as sidings where locomotives could "run round" a train to reverse it. The picture shows the head of the siding (two lines enter the tunnel and join in the tunnel). An earlier view, from the opposite direction, with 25kV wires still in place, is at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/64494 . Historic detail at www.gracesguide.co.uk/Crown_Street_Tunnel

Drinking fountain at the entrance to the park on the corner of Crown Street and Falkner Street, Edge Hill.

This tunnel led to the original railway station at Liverpool at Crown Street, a grand sandstone building with a moorish arch over a deep cutting, reported to be the world's first passenger railway station. In addition to the passenger station with its offices, waiting rooms and overall roof there was also goods facilities and accommodation for coal merchants. The Crown Street passenger terminus soon proved inadequate due to its size and distance from the city centre and it was closed on 15th August 1836 on the opening of a new terminus at Lime Street in May 1835, much closer to the city centre (until 1870 trains were hauled up and down from Edge hill by ropes rather than by locomotives). Crown Street was relegated to a goods and engineering maintenance depot eventually closing in 1968, little remains of this historic site.

Smithdown Primary School from Tunnel Road.

The former St Catherine's Church, Tunnel Road, Edge Hill used, amongst other things as a jujitsu club until 2007. The foundation stone was laid July 5th 1862 and it opened May 21st 1863. Demolished in February 2008

The tunnel was used to convey rail traffic from Park Lane Goods depot at Wapping Dock to the Liverpool Manchester railway at Edge Hill

This shaft is in a park (unnamed on the map) beside Smithdown Lane, Liverpool. It ventilates one of the lines running into the nearby Edge Hill Station.