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Liverpool And Manchester Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Liverpool Lime Street from the Virgin platforms.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7070.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Passing the glory that was Edge Hill.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7071.jpg "Edge Hill")
![Site of the former Olive Mount Junction looking east. Behind the camera is the new Wavertree Technology Park station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/11000/11892.jpg "Olive Mount Junction")
![Western Portal of the Crown Street Tunnel. This once led from Edge Hill to the first Liverpool terminus but now leads to this buffer stop.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/11000/11895.jpg "Crown Street Tunnel")
![Freightliner waits for the off at Edge Hill on the stump of the Crown Street approach.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/11000/11906.jpg "Edge Hill")
![Class G1 0-8-0 no 49137 stands in the sidings at Edge Hill, Liverpool, on a murky day in April 1962. The locomotive had been officially withdrawn by BR approximately 6 months earlier. <br><br>[K A Gray 15/04/1962]](/images/43000/43331.jpg "Edge Hill")
![45305 prepares to leave Liverpool Lime Street on 6 April 1968 with the LCGB <I>Lancastrian</I> railtour.<br><br>[K A Gray 06/04/1968]](/images/29000/29088.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![73069 backs onto the LCGB <I>Two Cities Limited</I> at Earlestown on 23 June 1968, taking over from 48033 which brought in the train. The class 5 will take charge for the next section of the railtour as far as Manchester Victoria (via a circuitous route) following which 48033 will handle the final leg back to Liverpool Lime Street. [See image 31407] <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 23/06/1968]](/images/25000/25335.jpg "Earlestown")
![Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73069 stands on the south western section of the Earlestown triangle on 23 June 1968. The locomotive is about to take over the LCGB <I>Two Cities Limited</I> railtour from Stanier 8F no 48033, which it will then take forward, via a roundabout route, on the next leg to Manchester Victoria. [See image 25335]<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 23/06/1968]](/images/29000/29998.jpg "Earlestown")
![Three EE Type 4s - three front ends. Scene in the sidings alongside Edge Hill shed, Liverpool, in June 1969.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/06/1969]](/images/40000/40813.jpg "Edge Hill")
![Lime Street station, Liverpool on 19 May 1970, with a class 86 locomotive standing idle between turns.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/05/1970]](/images/17000/17922.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![The view from the front of an eastbound DMU approaching Ordsall <br>
Junction, Manchester, on 19 May 1970. On the left are Granada Studios and Ordsall Junction signal box, while over on the right is the roof of Manchester Central station.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/05/1970]](/images/33000/33945.jpg "Ordsall Junction")
![LMS Jinty 7298 putting in an appearance during the <I>Rocket 150 Cavalcade</I> at Rainhill, in May 1980. [See image 52296]<br><br>[Bill Roberton /05/1980]](/images/52000/52303.jpg "Rainhill")
![The old Liverpool and Manchester main line sees split headcode Class 40 40132 heading west and approaching Newton-le-Willows station with a train of oil tanks. The train is just passing Parkside Colliery, whose exchange sidings are in the foreground. The M6 Motorway overbridge can be seen in the background and Parkside's two modern winding towers were a prominent landmark to motorists for many years until they were demolished after its closure in 1993. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/10/1980]](/images/31000/31642.jpg "Newton-le-Willows")
![47409 rounds the curve at Parkside with the Liverpool portion of a train from Scotland that will have divided at Preston. The lines in the foreground were the access to Parkside Colliery, which continued to produce coal until 1993. The former D1508, from the first batch of Brush Type 4s, was withdrawn from Gateshead in 1986 and scrapped by Vic Berry in Leicester three years later. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/10/1980]](/images/60000/60742.jpg "Newton-le-Willows")
![Scene at Manchester Liverpool Road station in 1985 with an unidentified saddle tank running shuttles up and down the line.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1985]](/images/27000/27593.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![Looking west to Liverpool at Wavertree Technology Park station in 2003. There is a lift down to the platform - or one can brave the 58 steps.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 11/07/2003]](/images/38000/38066.jpg "Wavertree Technology Park")
![Lime Street SB on 9 January 2007 with the tunnels to Edge Hill on the left.<br><br>[John McIntyre 9/01/2007]](/images/13000/13101.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Trains for Manchester Oxford Road (L), Norwich and London Euston stand at Liverpool Lime Street on 9 January 2007. <br><br>[John McIntyre 9/01/2007]](/images/13000/13102.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![A Birmingham New Street train leaves Lime Street on 9 January 2007.<br><br>[John McIntyre 9/01/2007]](/images/13000/13103.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Liverpool Road East platform at what is now the home of Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry. The Manchester Liverpool Road station building of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, opened on 15 September 1830, is widely considered the world's first passenger terminus. [See image 17282]<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //2009]](/images/32000/32489.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![A1 no 60163 'Tornado' at the head of the Royal Train having recently arrived from Preston at Manchester Liverpool Road station, now part of the Museum of Science and Industry. The photo is taken from Lower Byrom Street looking west through the gates of the museum. The chimneys on the roof of the building behind the loco are part of the station building.<br><br>[John McIntyre 04/02/2010]](/images/27000/27538.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![No 9... no, not <I>Union of South Africa</I>, but a working replica of the historic 2-2-0 locomotive <I>Planet</I>, seen between the former warehouses at what is now the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester on 4 February 2010. The locomotive was in steam to coincide with the visit of HRH the Prince of Wales and the Royal Train, hauled into the museum by A1 pacific <I>Tornado</I>.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 04/02/2010]](/images/27000/27580.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![The Manchester Liverpool Road station building of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway is often considered the world's first passenger terminus. It is seen at street level on 4 February 2010 almost 180 years after it was opened on 15 September 1830 by the Duke of Wellington. Although it only operated as a passenger station until May 1844, it continued in use as a goods depot until 1975. The red brick building on the corner, which predates the station itself, was purchased by the railway company and used as the superintendent's house. Today the station forms part of the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry and still contains several original features.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 04/02/2010]](/images/28000/28986.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![Just about to start its 5 hour 20 minute journey, on the 12.52hrs through service to Norwich, this Stagecoach liveried 158 at Lime St station makes a colourful contrast to the Northern units in their purple and mauve scheme. Left to right the trains are: 158770 for Norwich, 142053 for Manchester Victoria, 156482 for Blackpool and 150228 newly arrived. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/10/2010]](/images/31000/31188.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Earlestown was built in 1835 and apparently is the oldest railway station building in the world that has survived on an operational passenger station. 142003, on a Manchester Liverpool service, draws up alongside the very ornate platform canopy. Although the station is still staffed this building is not currently in use. Behind it is the platform reopened for use by Liverpool Warrington services [See image 31359] making Earlestown a full <I>triangle</I> station again. View towards Newton-le-Willows and Manchester along the original Liverpool and Manchester line of 1830.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/11/2010]](/images/31000/31357.jpg "Earlestown")
![Detail of the canopy and stonework of the original Liverpool and Manchester station building on Platform 2 at Earlestown. In this view, looking along the L&M towards Manchester, a passenger can be seen making the long walk to the platforms on the south to east curve.[See image 31358] The building itself is no longer used but is in a reasonable state of repair.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/11/2010]](/images/31000/31588.jpg "Earlestown")
![Photograph relating to mystery image 5135 (see comments) taken on 19 February from a 156 DMU (with non-opening and less than clean windows!) This shows the view today just west of Salford Central on the line to Ordsall Junction passing the bridge I believe is depicted in 5135. While the section in the right foreground is the original, that on the left became part of a new bridge when the road below was widened a few years ago. Following the viaduct round there are two more bridges which are discernible in Query 5135 and before them is an arch with a wider span which now has a large billboard in front of it. [See image 5135]<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/02/2011]](/images/32000/32841.jpg "Salford Central")
![On the route of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, a Northern <br>
service between those cities heads east non stop through Eccles station on 19 February 2011. The Class 156 unit travels a little faster than Stephenson's Rocket and the other locomotives of that era. The station is kept in a very tidy condition by FRECCLES (Friends of Eccles Station). In addition to the flower beds on both platforms they have also provided several excellent posters explaining the history of the station from 1830 up to the fire that resulted in its destruction in 1971. To the right of the fence there is one other track where once there were two (each with its own platform). Today this is a loop line used by freights and occasional steam specials when they need to stop for water.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/02/2011]](/images/32000/32845.jpg "Eccles")
![A street level view of Salford Central station on 19 February 2011. The glass encased area on the left below the overbridges is the spacious concourse which contains a booking office. Of the three overbridges which have been smartly painted, the furthest away carries the two tracks which serve platforms 1 and 2. The middle bridge once carried two tracks, each with platforms, but is now empty. The nearest bridge used to carry 4 tracks from Deal St Jn on the route to Ordsall Jn but this has now been reduced to two <br>
tracks. [See image 32888]<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/02/2011]](/images/32000/32857.jpg "Salford Central")
![A Virgin Voyager heads west through Eccles on 19 February 2011.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/02/2011]](/images/32000/32866.jpg "Eccles")
![The 1610 hrs from Manchester Victoria to Kirkby calls at Salford <br>
Central station on 19 February 2011. There are now only two platforms in use here with two abandoned to the right beyond the fence. On the extreme right the former 4 track route from Deal Street Junction to Ordsall Junction has now been reduced to two. [See image 32857]<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/02/2011]](/images/32000/32888.jpg "Salford Central")
![One of the two trainsheds at Liverpool Lime St station, as seen from the Copperas Hill bridge that climbs over the platforms. The second trainshed can be glimpsed on the right. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/06/2011]](/images/34000/34701.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![One of the two Lime Street trainsheds fronts directly on to the road outside, while the second is hidden behind a building. Refurbishment has given the station a light and airy feel as seen in this picture. Note the prominent double arrow symbol on the glass screen. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/06/2011]](/images/34000/34702.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Light and shade inside the Lime Street trainshed where on the south side two former platforms have been turned into a taxi rank. I'm sure passengers appreciate the opportunity to board their taxi out of the weather. This view looks towards the buffers and the fanlight with an EMT Class 158 on a Norwich service on the right behind the security fence. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 24/06/2011]](/images/35000/35211.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Passing under the world's first skew arch railway bridge 142032 slows to call at Rainhill on a Lime Street to Stalybridge all stations service in October 2011. The bridge, now listed, is made up of individually shaped stones that were based on a wooden mock up constructed in a nearby field at the time the line was being built. It features in many early prints of the Liverpool and Manchester railway and, at 180 years old, still carries a busy main road. Soon of course it will also have OLE wires underneath it as the Liverpool to Manchester electrification gets under way.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/10/2011]](/images/36000/36010.jpg "Rainhill")
![St Helens Junction looking towards Liverpool on 13 October 2011. It hasn't been a junction for passengers since the line to St Helens closed in 1965 (goods in 1988) but retains the name to this day, although it serves the community of Sutton.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/10/2011]](/images/36000/36057.jpg "St Helens Junction")
![The old bay platform face at St Helens Junction can still be seen but now fronts onto the station car park. This would have been the platform from which connecting trains to St Helens Shaw St departed prior to 1965. Manchester bound trains still use the opposite side of this island. View west towards Liverpool.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/10/2011]](/images/36000/36066.jpg "St Helens Junction")
![Lea Green's original station closed in 1955 but reopened in 2000 at a new location a few hundred yards to the east serving a new development. 150218 calls on its way to Liverpool Lime Street along the old Liverpool and Manchester main line. The original Lea Green station was sited by the bridge that can just be seen in the distance. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/10/2011]](/images/36000/36074.jpg "Lea Green")
![The Rainhill Locomotive Trials of 1829 are so embedded in railway history that it is surprising to learn that Rainhill station was known as Kendricks Cross until 1843. It makes the most of its heritage now though and there are numerous display boards and plaques marking its significance. The station building itself, with its distinctive awning, dates from 1870 and is still staffed. A Manchester bound Pacer calls on a Northern stopping service from Liverpool.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/10/2011]](/images/36000/36109.jpg "Rainhill")
![When the Liverpool to Manchester line and others in the North West are electrified it will apparently be cascaded ex-Thameslink 319 EMUs that will provide services [see image 31009]. Not ideal but undoubtedly an improvement on the even older four wheeled Pacers they will replace. 142032 leaves Rainhill heading east on a Stalybridge service.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/10/2011]](/images/36000/36228.jpg "Rainhill")
![Doddy meets Bessie. Statues on the concourse at Lime Street station, Liverpool, in honour of the famous comedian and the late <I>'Battling'</I> Bessie Braddock MP (1899-1970) former Member of Parliament for Liverpool Exchange.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 16/10/2011]](/images/36000/36085.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Most of the locomotives at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry have a strong connection to the city so the arrival in 2011 of the last surviving Barclay Class 06 0-4-0DM shunter was a little surprising. 06003 was previously in the care of the Heritage Shunters Trust although I hadn't personally seen it since 1981 [See image 22416]. The loco was moved away again to Peak Rail, Derbyshire in early 2013.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/12/2011]](/images/37000/37009.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![D2868, a Class 02 Yorkshire Engine Co. 0-4-0DH, arrived at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry in early 2011, along with Barclay 06003. The 02 was an appropriate exhibit as this class replaced the L&YR <I>Pugs</I> in the Manchester and Salford goods yards. It is seen here, outside one of the old warehouses, from a passing internal steam train service. D2868 itself was a Lostock Hall loco, [See image 25579] being withdrawn from there in December 1969 and passing into industry and then preservation. It was moved away from MOSI to Peak Rail, Derbyshire in early 2013.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/12/2011]](/images/37000/37017.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![Gorton built EM2 Co-Co electric E27001 has been preserved at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry since withdrawal by Netherlands State Railways in 1986. It carries its NS livery but also has its BR <I>Ariadne</I> nameplate from its days as E27001 on Manchester-Sheffield Woodhead route duties. [See image 22507]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/12/2011]](/images/37000/37043.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![View from the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry yard along the running line towards the original Liverpool Road station building. In the foreground is sole surviving Barclay Class 06 0-4-0DM 06003 (resident here from 2011 to 2013) with a centre cab electric shunting locomotive in the middle distance.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/12/2011]](/images/37000/37071.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![Although the railway locomotives in the Power Hall at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry are all static exhibits there are numerous working stationary steam engines and so the smell of steam and hot oil gives the building a special atmosphere. Isle of Man Railway 2-4-0T No. 3 <I>Pender</I> was constructed by Beyer Peacock in 1873 at Gorton and is now a sectioned exhibit with other Manchester built locomotives behind. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/12/2011]](/images/37000/37419.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![Scene at the buffer stops at Liverpool Lime Street on 19 April 2012.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 19/04/2012]](/images/38000/38503.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![NS class 1500 no 1505 (former Class EM2 E27001) on display at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry in May 2012. The locomotive ended its operational life on the Netherlands State Railways in 1986 and retains its NS livery [see image 22507].<br><br>[Colin Alexander /05/2012]](/images/46000/46031.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![The 1929 Beyer Garratt Class GL 4-8-2+2-8-4 locomotive on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester in May 2012. The locomotive was built at Beyer Peacock's Gorton foundry for the South African Railways. <br><br>[Colin Alexander /05/2012]](/images/46000/46172.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![Barclay 06 003 in the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry yard on 31 May alongside the original Liverpool Road station building.<br><br>[Peter Todd 31/05/2012]](/images/39000/39025.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![Former CEGB 0-4-0 battery locomotive <I>'Bolton'</I> (English Electric 1378/1944) in the yard at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry on 31 May 2012.<br><br>[Peter Todd 31/05/2012]](/images/39000/39036.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![<I>'Planet'</I> photographed at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, in May 2012.<br><br>[Peter Todd 31/05/2012]](/images/39000/39052.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![A Liverpool to Huddersfield stopping service, formed by Northern 156483, calls at Huyton. On the opposite platform the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway station building, probably dating from soon after 1832 when Huyton opened, is still in use and staffed. Just beyond the train the signal controls the junction with the St Helens Central line but this service will go straight on for Manchester. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/10/2012]](/images/40000/40687.jpg "Huyton")
![Broad Green must be one of the oldest railway stations in the world still served by passenger trains as it opened with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830. Sadly, little remains of the early station as the platforms are concrete and the buildings are dilapdated 1960s/70s affairs. 156455 calls on a Liverpool to Wigan North Western service. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/10/2012]](/images/40000/40699.jpg "Broad Green")
![The 4-aspect colour light signals at Huyton are controlled from the mechanical lever frame in the LNWR signal box. New infrastructure is appearing however, as seen here, and the box will not survive the forthcomng electrification. 142025 is on the rear of a four-car Pacer set leaving for Liverpool Lime St. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 17/10/2012]](/images/40000/40738.jpg "Huyton")
![With electrification from Manchester to Newton-le-Willows scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013, masts are starting to appear all along the eastern half of the L&MR. On a gloomy afternoon in December 2012, Arriva Trains Wales 158835 passes a new mast at Eccles station as it hurries through on a train from North Wales to Manchester. Over on the Liverpool platform holes are being excavated for further installations.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/12/2012]](/images/41000/41576.jpg "Eccles")
![A landslip at Glazebrook just prior to Christmas continued to cause disruption after the two day break. Trans-Pennine services from Liverpool were diverted away from their usual Warrington Central route to the Newton-le-Willows line and TPE 185104 is seen here running through Huyton on 28 December heading for Manchester with a service for the North East. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/12/2012]](/images/41000/41586.jpg "Huyton")
![Diverted from its usual Warrington Central route by a landslip at Glazebrook, TPE 185104 speeds east through Huyton. The train has just cleared the signal that controls the junction for the St Helens and Wigan line and is heading towards Earlestown. Both these lines are to be electrified under the current programme.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/12/2012]](/images/41000/41872.jpg "Huyton")
![Northern unit 150275 calls at Huyton on 11 March 2013 with a Liverpool - Stalybridge service. Huyton is one of the original stations on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.<br><br>[John McIntyre 11/03/2013]](/images/42000/42405.jpg "Huyton")
![Exterior of Liverpool Lime Street, June 2013.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 21/06/2013]](/images/43000/43537.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![A Pendolino about to leave Liverpool Lime Street for Euston on 21 June.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 21/06/2013]](/images/43000/43544.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Scene on platform 8 at Liverpool Lime Street station on 21 June 2013. London Midland 350241 is preparing to depart with a service to Birmingham New Street. <br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 21/06/2013]](/images/43000/43602.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![View over the taxi lane at Liverpool Lime Street in June 2013.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 21/06/2013]](/images/43000/43637.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Comings and goings, Liverpool Lime Street, 21 June 2013.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 21/06/2013]](/images/43000/43682.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![View across the platforms at Liverpool Lime Street on 25 September 2013. The train standing at platform 6 is the East Midlands 14.52 service to Norwich.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 25/09/2013]](/images/44000/44776.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Looking back towards the station concourse, Liverpool Lime Street, September 2013.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 25/09/2013]](/images/44000/44801.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Scene at Liverpool Lime Street on 25 September with 150147 at platform 2.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 25/09/2013]](/images/44000/44830.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Work is proceeding around Salford Central station in connection with electrification and the Ordsall link. At present the only platforms in use are served by trains on the route between Victoria and Salford Crescent but it is understood that the line from Ordsall Jct may also be about to have platform access. On 4 October Northern 150206 makes its final stop before Manchester Victoria.<br><br>[John McIntyre 04/10/2013]](/images/45000/45118.jpg "Salford Central")
![Agecroft No 1 with two replica coaches and an ex BR brake van providing rides around the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester on 29 October 2013.<br><br>[John McIntyre 29/10/2013]](/images/45000/45275.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![A Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Victoria service calls at Lea Green on 19 April 2014. Work associated with the forthcoming electrification can be seen to the right of the station sign and in the distance under the bridge.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47069.jpg "Lea Green")
![A view east from the platform at Rainhill on 19 April 2014 with a Manchester bound service passing under the footbridge. Rainhill signal box can be seen beyond the train.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47103.jpg "Rainhill")
![A view west at St Helens Junction on 19 April 2014 with a Liverpool bound service departing.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47132.jpg "St Helens Junction")
![A Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Victoria service arrives at Roby on 19 April 2014. On the right work is underway to reinstate two platforms.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47176.jpg "Roby")
![The skew arch bridge carrying the A57 over the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at Rainhill, looking west towards Liverpool on 19 April 2014. The inscription on the bridge (see lower photograph) reads <I>'Erected June 1829 - Charles Lawrence Esq Chairman - George Stephenson Engineer'</I>.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47229.jpg "Rainhill")
![A Manchester bound service passes Rainhill non-stop on 19 April 2014. The Grade 2 listed station building is still in use as a ticket office and waiting room, having undergone a major restoration in 2010/2011. With work on the electrification of the line underway at present the view may well change significantly in the coming months. <br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47267.jpg "Rainhill")
![A limited stop Manchester Oxford Road to Liverpool Lime Street service arrives at Newton-le-Willows on 19 April 2014. On the left behind the platform fence is the loading ramp for the old Motorail terminal. [With thanks to Michael Butterworth]<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47274.jpg "Newton-le-Willows")
![A Manchester Victoria to Liverpool Lime Street service calls at Eccles on 19 April 2014. With electrification now complete between Castlefield Jct and Parkside Jct the line is used daily by TransPennine services between Manchester Airport and Edinburgh or Glasgow using the new Class 350/4 EMUs.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47284.jpg "Eccles")
![Platform reinstatement work in progress at Roby station on 19 April 2014 [see image 47176].<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47305.jpg "Roby")
![An eastbound service calls at St Helens Junction on 19 April 2014. It may no longer be a junction station but at least it retains a platform building (original?)<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47744.jpg "St Helens Junction")
![Restoring platforms 3 & 4 at Huyton on 19 April 2014. In this view west towards Roby the platform walls are taking shape and track should soon appear.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47765.jpg "Huyton")
![150273 calls at Huyton with a Liverpool to Manchester service on 19 April 2014. On the left work is underway to eventually restore 4 track working from Roby to Huyton Jct just to the east of the station.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47773.jpg "Huyton")
![Blue plaque from the City of Salford at Eccles station. The plaque celebrates the opening of the station on the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway by the Duke of Wellington in 1830.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47783.jpg "Plates, signs and notices")
![A railhead treatment train hurries east along the new bidirectional third track at Huyton on 12 October. The fourth track beyond will be brought into use as soon as the compulsory purchase of land alongside allows.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 12/10/2014]](/images/49000/49024.jpg "Huyton")
![Supplementing Northern services into and out of Manchester from the Chorley area on Saturdays until Christmas is a 6 coach Mark 2 set with a DRS loco on either end. On 29 November 47818 is on the rear of the set calling at Salford Central heading for Manchester Victoria.<br><br>[John McIntyre 29/11/2014]](/images/49000/49637.jpg "Salford Central")
![Looking down the disused roads at Salford Central on 2 December, standing by the new lift to the surviving westbound platform. An MPV on RHTT duties is passing under the new gantries on the Ordsall line. The station concourse is on the main road directly below the three rail bridges [See image 32857].<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 02/12/2014]](/images/49000/49713.jpg "Salford Central")
![Northern 142037, on a Wigan to Manchester Victoria local service, pulls away from its penultimate stop at Salford Central on 2nd December. Electrification masts are starting to appear around Salford and the Pacers should be the first units to go when the EMUs arrive.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 02/12/2014]](/images/49000/49911.jpg "Salford Central")
![Entrance to Huyton station, Merseyside, on 21 December 2014. This busy station serves as an interchange between the Liverpool - Wigan line and the northern route between Liverpool and Manchester. The two diverge just to the east of the station at Huyton Junction.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 21/12/2014]](/images/49000/49976.jpg "Huyton")
![East Midlands Trains unit 158856 stands at Liverpool Lime Street on 22 December 2014 forming the 1452 service to Norwich.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 22/12/2014]](/images/50000/50011.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![The frontage of Lime Street station, Liverpool, 22 December 2014. <br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 22/12/2014]](/images/50000/50022.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Northern 156421 arrives at Liverpool Lime Street on 22 December 2014.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 22/12/2014]](/images/50000/50034.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Part of the electrification team in action at Huyton station on Boxing Day 2014.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 26/12/2014]](/images/50000/50016.jpg "Huyton")
![Electrification work in progress near Huyton, Merseyside, on 28 December 2014.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 28/12/2014]](/images/49000/49984.jpg "Huyton")
![A lineup of road-rail aerial platforms for use on the Liverpool - Manchester electrification project parked on the reinstated but as yet unused platform 4 at Roby station on 3 February 2015. View west towards Liverpool Lime Street.<br><br>[John McIntyre 03/02/2015]](/images/50000/50246.jpg "Roby")
![A Liverpool to Warrington service departs from platform 3 at Huyton on 3 February 2015. Photographed from platform 4, which is not yet usable as there is a vital component missing to the east of the station. Purchase of a small strip of land is to be finalised by Network Rail if Plan A is going to work.<br><br>[John McIntyre 03/02/2015]](/images/50000/50311.jpg "Huyton")
![New kid in town. 319363, sporting its recently acquired <I>'Northern Electrics'</I> livery, stabled in Liverpool Lime Street platform 1 on the afternoon of 12 March 2015.<br><br>[John McIntyre 12/03/2015]](/images/50000/50644.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Looking east through the tunnels and cuttings from the platform end at Liverpool Lime Street on 12 March as a Pendolino sets off for Euston.<br><br>[John McIntyre 12/03/2015]](/images/50000/50649.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![View from the concourse at Liverpool Lime Street on 12 March 2015 showing 5 different unit types at the buffer stops. From left to right are classes 319, 142, 150, 185 and 156.<br><br>[John McIntyre 12/03/2015]](/images/50000/50654.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Trains at the buffers at Liverpool Lime Street on 12 March 2015. Following the wall collapse in the cutting to the east of the station on 28 February 2017 [see news item], the station had been closed while Network Rail staff worked to clear the debris, carry out stabilisation work and repair OHLE and signalling. Services are now scheduled to restart 24 hrs earlier than expected on 8 March 2017.<br><br>[John McIntyre 12/03/2015]](/images/58000/58338.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![A London Midland service from Birmingham exits the tunnel, passes the signalbox and enters the station at Liverpool Lime Street on 12 March 2015.<br><br>[John McIntyre 12/03/2015]](/images/58000/58652.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![A Liverpool to Manchester Victoria service arrives at Edge Hill station on 09 October 2015. To the right of the station building is the eastbound line and a second island platform used by the services from the south.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/10/2015]](/images/52000/52846.jpg "Edge Hill")
![An Arriva Trains Wales service from North Wales to Manchester Piccadilly departs from Earlestown and joins the L&M line on 09 October 2015.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/10/2015]](/images/52000/52875.jpg "Earlestown")
![A Liverpool to Wigan North Western stopping service calls at Wavertree Technology Park on 09 October 2015. The 4 car Class 319s Northern Electrics are now well established on this route, the Liverpool to Manchester Airport express, the Liverpool to Manchester Victoria stopper and the Liverpool to Preston services.<br>
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<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/10/2015]](/images/52000/52881.jpg "Wavertree Technology Park")
![Northern Electrics unit 319386 calls at Broad Green on 09 October with a service to Liverpool Lime Street. The station is on the route of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. On the right is the western end of the M62 motorway. <br><br>[John McIntyre 09/10/2015]](/images/52000/52888.jpg "Broad Green")
![ATW 175102 heading for Manchester and Northern Electrics 319361 heading for Liverpool call at Newton-le-Willows on 9 October 2015.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/10/2015]](/images/53000/53217.jpg "Newton-le-Willows")
![A blue plaque explains the replica memorial that is fixed inside the station building at Newton-le-Willows relating to the first railway fatality.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/10/2015]](/images/53000/53220.jpg "Newton-le-Willows")
![A replica of the memorial tablet to Rt Hon William Huskisson MP who was killed nearby on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway on 15 September 1830. The tablet is located within the station building.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/10/2015]](/images/53000/53228.jpg "Newton-le-Willows")
![Northern Electric 319377 departs from the restored Platform 3 at Huyton on 14th March 2016 with a stopping service from Lime Street to Wigan. In the foreground the line through Platform 4 comes to an abrupt halt but will eventually be connected. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/03/2016]](/images/54000/54610.jpg "Huyton")
![Northern Electric 319363 leaves Huyton heading for Lime Street on a service from Warrington Bank Quay. The next stop at Roby, a very short distance away, can also be seen. Huyton has changed significantly in just a few years with electrification and additional tracks. [See image 40738] for a similar view in 2012. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/03/2016]](/images/54000/54756.jpg "Huyton")
![A Manchester Airport to Blackpool service with a pair of Class 156 DMUs crosses the River Irwell on the approach to Ordsall Jct in the afternoon of 4 June 2016. On the right is one of the worksites for the new Ordsall curve although the curve will be on the other side of the viaduct. Looking along the river beyond the first viaduct is an arch of the original L&M viaduct. Beyond that is the reflection of the Princes St girder bridge.<br><br>[John McIntyre 04/06/2016]](/images/55000/55348.jpg "Ordsall Junction")
![A view west from Manchester Liverpool Road station towards Ordsall Jct on 04 June 2016. The museum's operating line has now been cut back to Water St bridge with the start of the work to construct the Ordsall curve.<br><br>[John McIntyre 04/06/2016]](/images/55000/55390.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![Looking west from Water Street with viaducts converging as they cross the River Irwell. On the right is the L&M line which lead into Liverpool Road station and to the left is the line from Castelfield Jct to Ordsall Jct. The new Ordsall curve will sweep right from the viaduct on the left and through the L&M viaduct.<br><br>[John McIntyre 04/06/2016]](/images/55000/55395.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![On the left a Class 156 DMU heading to Stalybridge while on the right is a Class 150 heading to Kirkby call at Salford Central on 04 June 2016. Significant improvements have been proposed for this station at platform level.<br><br>[John McIntyre 04/06/2016]](/images/55000/55402.jpg "Salford Central")
![0-4-0ST Agecroft No.1 takes visitors to the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry on a short ride in two replica L&M coaches. On the right is an English Electric 4w battery loco, works number 1378 of 1944.<br><br>[John McIntyre 04/06/2016]](/images/55000/55431.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![The Merseyrail network map. Whilst the green Wirral Line and the blue Northern Line unmistakably exist the red City Line doesn't seem to be much of a reality outside this diagram, having no noticeable branding and operating out of Lime Street mainline station on Northern Rail trains all bound for points beyond Merseyside. Am I missing something?<br><br>[David Panton 30/06/2016]](/images/55000/55770.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![An East Midlands Trains service for Norwich stands at Liverpool Lime Street Platform 5 on 30/06/2016.<br><br>[David Panton 30/06/2016]](/images/55000/55845.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Northern 319376 calls at Wavertree Technology Park with a Warrington Bank Quay to Lime Street service on 13th July 2016. The station opened in 2000 and the booking office on the bridge is at street level, connected on either side by footbridges. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/07/2016]](/images/55000/55833.jpg "Wavertree Technology Park")
![185121, on a TPE Newcastle to Liverpool service, is nearing journey's end as it passes through the famous Olive Mount cutting and approaches the platforms of Wavertree Technology Park station. [See image 11892] for an earlier view of this location, since when the junction with the line to the docks has been reinstated and the Liverpool and Manchester line has been electrified. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/07/2016]](/images/56000/56196.jpg "Olive Mount Junction")
![319374 in Northern livery at Huyton on 5 August 2016.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 05/08/2016]](/images/56000/56197.jpg "Huyton")
![With Salford Central to the right and behind the camera, a Northern Class 319 from Manchester Victoria to Liverpool service takes the line towards Ordsall Jct on 08 October 2016. The lines to the right head towards Salford Crescent.<br><br>[John McIntyre 08/10/2016]](/images/56000/56775.jpg "Salford Central")
![Two pairs of Pacers pass each other at Salford Central on 08 October 3016. The pair on the left are heading to Manchester Victoria just one stop away while the pair on the right are off to Southport.<br><br>[John McIntyre 08/10/2016]](/images/56000/56784.jpg "Salford Central")
![A Blackpool North to Manchester Airport service crosses the River Irwell on 08 October 2016. There are considerable changes since my last visit a few months ago with the work on the new Ordsall curve taking place.<br><br>[John McIntyre 08/10/2016]](/images/56000/56793.jpg "Ordsall Junction")
![Work in progress at Salford Central on 15 December 2016 in the area of the disused platforms. To the left is are the platforms on the line from Salford Crescent to Manchester Victoria and on the right are the through lines from Ordsall Jct also heading to Victoria.<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/12/2016]](/images/57000/57570.jpg "Salford Central")
![A close up of new DRS electro-diesel no.88002 as it waits at Roby for a path towards Edge Hill on 29 March 2017. This was one of several runs between Carlisle and Crewe, the outward run was direct up the WCML and the return north diverting via Edge Hill.<br><br>[John McIntyre 29/03/2017]](/images/58000/58984.jpg "Roby")
![Two <I>Northern Electrics</I> sit in the north side platforms at Lime Street station on 6th April 2017. 319450, newly arrived from Preston, is as yet unbranded but 319382, waiting on the right to depart to Warrington, has full Northern livery. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 06/04/2017]](/images/59000/59106.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![A Liverpool to Manchester Victoria stopping service passes Salford Central on the newly re-aligned track through what may become platform 3. Until a few weeks ago these lines between Ordsall Jct and Deal St Jct ran to the right where the digger is located.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/05/2017]](/images/59000/59437.jpg "Salford Central")
![Ken Dodd about to tickle Bessie Braddock outside the temporary Virgin first class lounge at Liverpool Lime Street. The bronzes were installed in 2009.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 20/06/2017]](/images/59000/59797.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Northern Class 319 nos. 367 and 361, still in their white base livery with blue doors, seen at Lime Street's Platforms 1 and 2 in June 2017.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 20/06/2017]](/images/59000/59819.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Platforms 8 and 9 at Lime Street in June 2017. Off to the left behind the partition, work has started to construct two new platforms – a mere 8 years or so after new buildings were erected in the former cab road area. The temporary Virgin first class lounge currently situated near the station entrance at least has a toilet, so Liverpool Virgin passengers are spared the inconvenience suffered by those waiting in the lounge at Glasgow Central.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 21/06/2017]](/images/59000/59860.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![The arches at Lime Street were revealed again when the former Concourse House tower and shops were demolished some years ago during the station refurbishment work, which also included the plaza seen here on a hot Midsummer's Day in 2017.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 21/06/2017]](/images/59000/59880.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Hoardings at Liverpool Lime Street in September 2017 showing the planned two new platforms.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 07/09/2017]](/images/60000/60858.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![This was taken over the fence showing the contractors working on the two new platforms at Lime Street.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 07/09/2017]](/images/60000/60859.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![156421 at Liverpool Lime Street.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 07/09/2017]](/images/61000/61474.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Looking to the tunnel mouth at Liverpool Lime Street.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 07/09/2017]](/images/61000/61524.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![One of the magnificent trainsheds at Lime Street.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 07/09/2017]](/images/61000/61551.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![The interior of the trainshed at Liverpool Lime Street showing the hoarding blocking the view of the platform works.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 07/09/2017]](/images/61000/61666.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![185142 finds itself at Liverpool Lime Street.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 21/09/2017]](/images/61000/61494.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Platforms 7 and 8 being rebuilt at Liverpool Lime Street on 26 September 2017. This work is taking place prior to the closure of the station from 30 September until 8 October but then there is only a limited service until 22 October. The platforms are being significantly redesigned during this work and one other improvement will see the removal of bullhead rail.<br><br>[John McIntyre 26/09/2017]](/images/60000/60955.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![A view east along platform 3 at Huyton with work continuing to reinstate platform 4 on the left. During the first week of the Liverpool Lime Street closure (starting on 30 September) commissioning of the 4th track and platform is scheduled to take place now that extra land has been obtained next to the building on the left in the background.<br><br>[John McIntyre 26/09/2017]](/images/61000/61125.jpg "Huyton")
![The construction of the Ordsall Chord has severed the main line connection to the Museum of Science and Industry site and this is now the view from the west end of the old Liverpool Road station. The new Ordsall Chord bridge can be seen above the boundary fencing on 8th October 2017. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61093.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![The 1st Class booking hall at Manchester Liverpool Road, the oldest railway station in the world and now part of the Museum of Science and Industry. The stair case leads up to the <I>platform</I> [See image 27593]. When first opened as part of the museum this hall had a number of mannequins in period costume and was quite atmospheric. Although beautifully restored I have to say it is now a bit soulless. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61261.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![After fourteen years as a passenger station Liverpool Road was replaced by Manchester Victoria but continued in use as a Goods Depot until 1975. Many of the freight facilities can still be seen in its new role as part of the Museum of Science and Industry. This view taken from the main museum building in October 2017 shows the old sidings, the passenger station where the lines converge and the <I>Power Hall</I> on the left where the railway exhibits are housed. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61328.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![Looking out from the 1830 warehouse at Manchester Liverpool Road, towards the passenger platform, on 8th October 2017. There are a number of railway exhibits in various parts of these original railway buildings.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61957.jpg "Manchester Liverpool Road")
![The Salford skyline at night viewed from the west end of Salford Central station on 27 November 2017. Slightly left of centre of the photo, the new Ordsall bridge can be seen. Although the tracks on the lines to Ordsall Jct have been realigned through the disused platforms, work hasn't yet started to address the 'mountaineering' required to board and alight from trains on the platforms towards Salford Crescent.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/11/2017]](/images/62000/62029.jpg "Salford Central")
![D9009 'Alycidon' 'on the blocks' at Liverpool Lime Street having arrived from York with the 'Trans-Pennine Deltic Lament' railtour on 30 December 2017. The amount of interest that the tour generated along the route was hardly surprising with an immaculate rail blue Deltic and a matching set of 11 Blue/Grey Mark 2 carriages.<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/12/2017]](/images/62000/62326.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![The 'Trans-Pennine Deltic Lament' railtour with D9009 'Alycidon' heading a very smart rake of blue/grey carriages passes Huyton on 30 December 2017 whilst working the York to Liverpool leg of the tour.<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/12/2017]](/images/62000/62330.jpg "Huyton")
![A pair of London & Northwestern Class 350 EMUs arrive at Liverpool Lime Street on 30 December 2017. On the right behind a barrier is track-less former platform 6 which is currently undergoing a rebuild.<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/12/2017]](/images/62000/62332.jpg "Liverpool Lime Street")
![Northern Class 319s arrive and depart from Whiston as darkness falls on 30 December 2017. On the left a stopping service to Manchester Victoria heads east as a stopping service to Liverpool arrives on the adjacent platform.<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/12/2017]](/images/62000/62392.jpg "Whiston")
