Excursions at Wallasey Village 1977 and Heswall Hills 1978 

Wow,l i live on the wirral,,lovelly footage😊😊

I can't believe this footage has so few views. I think footage like this is historically important. What saddens me looking back here to now is how much freedom we had then. To think you could get very close to the track, no fences, no stupid barriers and "Passengers must not pass this point" signs at the end of the platform, none of those weird spiked ridge things that they have now. There's no way you'd be able to stand on the slope of that plaform on a station today. I''ve seen some stations where half rhe platform has been fenced off for no apparent reeason. All this health and safety is just about controlling people IMO. I've noticed that most of the road overbridges and even bridges crossing the tracks at stations they have been altered where you can no longer see over and watch. It's ridiculous. Also the stations still had some character to them, now they are clinical and soulless looking with ticket machines, ugly regional rail company colours, metal seating and CCTV cameras everywhere. The trans now are futuristic, soulless looking.