Used to play in them fields at bidston as a kid in the 70s..how overgrown it is now.. And there was a little yard at the side of bidston where the old trains would pull in.. There was one of them train carts like in the old silent movies where you could push and pull the lever up and down to move the cart's and we used to play on them in the summers. I remember my summers like an Enid blyton type summers.. Bidston was a lovely place.
I used this line from shotton to wrexham for 4 years going to uni. Would often look out the window and wonder about where the abandoned lines and junctions went to. I have a keen interest in local history and your conversation about the old junctions and stations was really interesting. Thanks for the upload!
Brilliant!!!! Used to play on the line as a (naughty) kid between Hawarden and Aston in the late 60's , early 70's (alongside Bennett's Lane and near where the Up Main Fish Tail Caution Signal was positioned coming into Hawarden) so it all brings back memories. As an adult have driven ADL class DMU's here in Auckland, New Zealand and those Leyland engines are so familiar. Can hear the turbo kicking in at around 25MPH :) Thanks for this wonderful trip down memory lane :) Although it does sound like the Driver flicks it straight into notch 3 when departing each station haaa :)
liked your video. i have grown up watching the trains at buckley junction, so this line has always been close to my heart, Any chance i could have a copy please
I don't in live in. Liverpool now or ENGLAND but how I miss it all pierhead we lived in pub called the Lord Clive corner of Clive St and Northumberland St. Dingle Liverpool 8 .I can't find any information on there at all can you help me please I'm still a sçouse so I'm chancing my arm have you spare copies of the over head railway and Liver building the run to New Brighton .Southport
There is a recommendation to pursue battery/electric trains for this line so the trains can run into the Liverpool and Birkenhead underground sections. It could then a 15 minutes service, not every hour. Then it would be on the Wirral Line of Merseyrail if it came about. Battery trains are running in Japan.
Great to experience the borderlands route. Are the line speeds really that slow? Also, I hot that with the exception of the first mile within Wrexham the whole route is double tracked but I never noticed a service in the opposite direction. Did I miss something?
So it took 51mins eleven years ago. Today (23/8/2020) the timetable allows 65mins. How's that for progress! I was wondering how the majority of the line is signalled.
@@johncollins8071 Where on Earth did you take that 65-minute figure from? Trains on this line run hourly with two units in operation on a weekday - which means they literally cannot take longer than 60 minutes each way (120 minutes round-trip including turnarounds). And that’s how this line has operated for years now. I just checked the working timetable for this line, and the actual journey time is closer to 58 minutes end-to-end.
Jamie Wilkes if you go to that website (sorry think it ends .co.uk). Type in hope station and click on detailed. Aim for around about 1500 and you should see what time it passes. It only shows in 1 hour slots so you'll have to do a bit of searching but freight does show up
Usually the third rail carries a high voltage current that the train gets its power from. also look at how bad the Cess is(That's that access footpath by the outer edge of the track, The gap between the rails the train travels on(the rails are also known as "running rails") is called the Four foot and the gap between two pairs of running rails is called the six foot. now despite the 6 foot looking very safe and wide enough for you to stand in whilst a train or two trains pass is not the case. If you did stand in the 6 foot as two trains pass you would die that is why when you see works doing repair works on the rails they always go to the cess or an area called a refuge that is cut in to the bank and usually has brick walls next to the cess if they are working in a area of track where the cess is narrow like in a cutting in a city.
Should have clarified that the 3rd rail at the start of the video is a check rail but the 3rd rail at the end of the video is a live rail for the Merseyrail Electric trains and carries 650V dc.
This video shows the dreadful run down state of our railways. Were it not for the background voices we could be in a third world country, weeds growing everywhere trackbed almost overgrown. This was a twin track not that many years back but from the way it’s going this looks like it will soon be just another line disappeared and become a cycle way.
Not a chance in hell mate. That line will go on for a long time yet. It’s actually in a better state these days. But the welsh government will keep it going. There’s now talk of a new station opening up by shotton paper mill to serve Deeside industrial park.
This track is due an upgrade by Merseytravel and Transport for Wales with Cheshire County Council. Will be electrified all the way to Bidston then for the Liverpool Loop. But unnescessary if they run the new Hydrogen Trains on this section. Already electrified the Wirral Line to Chester, and Reinstated the Frodsham Loop for Chester Lime St.
