Ditton, Runcorn Gap and Dutton Line and Edge Hll to Speke Line (London and North Western Railway)






Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Ditton, Runcorn Gap and Dutton










Edge Hll to Speke

Diminutive ex-L&Y class '21' 0-4-0ST dock tank no 51253 stands out of use on Speke Junction shed, Liverpool, in April 1963. The locomotive was ...
K A Gray 02/04/1963
Black 5 no 44751 photographed on Speke Junction shed (8C) in April 1963. The locomotive was officially withdrawn from here in September 1964. ...
K A Gray 02/04/1963
Black 5 44750 in the sidings at Speke Junction in April 1963, some 5 months before official withdrawal. ...
K A Gray 02/04/1963
G2 0-8-0 no 49454 photographed at Speke Junction (8C) in September 1958 having probably worked into the area on a freight from its home depot of Crewe ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/09/1958
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350238 slows to call at Liverpool South Parkway, with a service heading for Lime Street, on 7th December 2022. There are four platforms here. In that ...
Mark Bartlett 07/12/2022
507017 calls at Liverpool South Parkway, the first of twenty one intermediate stations on its journey to Southport, which will take just over an hour. ...
Mark Bartlett 07/12/2022
Vintage Trains 'The Mersey Explorer' on 10 September 2022 saw GWR designed 4-6-0 7029 'Clun Castle' working from Tyseley to Liverpool Lime Street. The ...
John McIntyre 10/09/2022
Transport for Wales 150245 passes Liverpool South Parkway whilst on a training run from Frodsham Jct to Liverpool Lime Street. The destination board ...
John McIntyre 22/03/2019
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TfW 150245, on a route learning run, heads back to Chester from Liverpool Lime Street passing through West Allerton on 22 March 2019. ...
John McIntyre 22/03/2019
A TPE training run from Crewe to Wavertree Jct with 68019 'Brutus' is seen passing West Allerton on the return trip during the afternoon of 22 March ...
John McIntyre 22/03/2019
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A Manchester to Liverpool Northern service calls at Mossley Hill, Liverpool on 22 March 2019. This is another station with a significant height ...
John McIntyre 22/03/2019
A Liverpool to Norwich service operated by EMT passes Mossley Hill, early in the journey on 22 March 2019. ...
John McIntyre 22/03/2019
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Local people and railway workers in Liverpool have unveiled a World War II memorial made from forgotten anti-tank blocks known as 'dragon's teeth' ...
Network Rail //
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