Post by thirstquensher on Feb 3, 2009 22:28:40 GMT
I just wondered whether anyone here has ever come across the pages about the Liverpool Overhead Railway, from "Disused Stations":
www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/features/index.shtml
It's quite fascinating and I like to think it's what the DLR would have looked like if it had been built 100 years earlier.
Look at the photo on the main page linked above. Honestly -- doesn't it look like Heron Quays in another dimension?
Some uncanny similarities:
1. It was elevated;
2. It used new technology: electric traction (novel for the time), including electric automatic signals;
3. It ran along the Liverpool Docks (so was a Dockland, Light, Railway);
4. Stations called 'Canning' (which used to be called 'Custom House'!), 'Brunswick Dock' and, straying into East London Line territory, a 'Canada Dock' and 'Wapping Dock';
5. Gained the benefit of subsequent extensions including one in a tunnel (towards Dingle) - straying yet again into East London Line territory, the Dingle extension passed over a lattice girder bridge (set at a jaunty angle) over a goods yard!
It's a shame it didn't last beyond the 50s. It would have been lovely to have seen a long protracted period of development in this railway, and no doubt would have paved the way for the types of vehicle and signalling systems that the DLR went on to use.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/features/index.shtml
It's quite fascinating and I like to think it's what the DLR would have looked like if it had been built 100 years earlier.
Look at the photo on the main page linked above. Honestly -- doesn't it look like Heron Quays in another dimension?
Some uncanny similarities:
1. It was elevated;
2. It used new technology: electric traction (novel for the time), including electric automatic signals;
3. It ran along the Liverpool Docks (so was a Dockland, Light, Railway);
4. Stations called 'Canning' (which used to be called 'Custom House'!), 'Brunswick Dock' and, straying into East London Line territory, a 'Canada Dock' and 'Wapping Dock';
5. Gained the benefit of subsequent extensions including one in a tunnel (towards Dingle) - straying yet again into East London Line territory, the Dingle extension passed over a lattice girder bridge (set at a jaunty angle) over a goods yard!
It's a shame it didn't last beyond the 50s. It would have been lovely to have seen a long protracted period of development in this railway, and no doubt would have paved the way for the types of vehicle and signalling systems that the DLR went on to use.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
