Photographs taken by Bill Peers with notes and historical background information compiled by MRHG Members Harry Leadbetter and Tim Pestell .
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Canning Street North signal box was a LNWR type 4 pattern box with an 18 lever tumbler frame. In its heyday it provided connections between the former LNWR/GWR joint line between Birkenhead & Chester and the lines of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board which serviced the various quays on the Birkenhead docks system. Additionally LNW and GW railway companies had their own warehousing facilities within the docks complex. There were also connecting facilities via the Dock Board lines to the former Wirral and Great Central companies at Birkenhead North and Bidston respectively. After the grouping of railways in 1923 the LNWR & Wirral lines became part of the LMSR and the Great Central joined the LNER. It was thus possible to see locomotives of all three companies at work in the Birkenhead area well into British Railways days.
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Wallasey Grove Road
Early morning photograph of this station on the former Wirral Railway route with the Wallasey Golf Links nearby.
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Green Lane Station
Green Lane Station (1986) Opened in 1886 by the Mersey Railway, trains emerge from the tunnel beneath the Mersey and glimpse daylight through the louvered station roof. When nearby Cammell Laird's shipyard was in full production this was a busy station used by the ship-workers at the start and finish of the day.
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Birkenhead Park
Signal Box located on the station platform and visible at the far end of the platform. The original Merseyrail signal box on this site was of distinctive design. This box was replaced in 1938 by the LMS as part of the 1930's modernisation scheme and in advance of the electrification of the LMS lines on Wirral. It was closed in 1988 after coloured light signalling operated from James Street had taken control.
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West Kirby Station
West Kirby (1986) Country end of the station with a porter's trolley on the island platform
6 Pwllheli Station
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Hooton Station
Hooton Station (1986) A train approaches beneath the covered footbridge of LNWR design
8 Birkenhead Park
9 Hooton
10 Llandudno
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