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Heatherleigh Close, LIVERPOOL, L9 8HH

View roughly SW to Aintree Sorting Sidings, where several of the 27 Race Specials were waiting to take racegoers home (all over Britain, from Glasgow to London to Bristol) after the 1955 Grand National. It was a filthy wet and cold day - but I had backed the Winner (Quare Times)! This is a memorable and dramatic scene, by Aintree Sorting Sidings No. 1 Box. These trains were the ones that left from Aintree Racecourse Station, which was to the left and on the ex- Lancashire & Yorkshire Fazakerley Junction - North Mersey line.

View westwards near Sefton Junction, towards North Mersey Goods, Gladstone Dock and Liverpool Exchange via Linacre Road; ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire line. Ford station (closed 2/4/51) was this side of the A5038 bridge in the distance; Aintree SS are across on the south side of the line. The locomotive on the Class F freight is ex-War Department 2-8-0 No. 90557: note that it is fitted with a snow-plough - in mid-June. [I thank Phil Prosser for his corrections].

No. 49592 (built 1929, withdrawn 5/59) was one of numerous members of the class working from Aintree Depot until the early 1950s. In 1950 (coded 27B) the Depot had an allocation of 55:- 5 2-8-0, 26 0-8-0, 16 0-6-0, 6 0-6-0T and 2 2-4-2T.

A very utilitarian locomotive designed for the Ministry of Defence for freight use during WW2, many serving overseas before returning to the UK and becoming part of the British Railways fleet. This pair displays the typically grimy conditions that these locomotives developed, particularly in the later years of steam, making it impossible to identify their numbers. Aintree locomotive shed was a major provider of locomotives for freight workings in and out of the northern Liverpool docks.

View SE of one of the trains depicted in Image This train is about to pick up its passengers and return to Hull, probably by the CLC route, Glazebrook, Stockport, Godley Junction and Sheffield. [Am I right?] Fowler 2P 4-4-0 40685 is piloting ER B1 4-6-0 61215 'William Henton Carver'.

Railway viaduct on the Trans Pennine Trail near Aintree Station, part of the National Cycleway Network Route 62.

At this point the Sustrans route leaves the trackbed of the Liverpool Extension Line (Cheshire Lines) and rises up to meet the former Litherland line. This view looks down into the overgrown cutting of the CLC route.

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