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Post by trt on Jul 24, 2012 14:27:30 GMT
Disused train tunnel collapses in Liverpool. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-18971316Is this tunnel part of the Liverpool Overhead Railway? That would be a fantastic piece of infrastructure to have put back into operation, what with the regeneration of the docklands and everything. Although I understand there isn't much of it left! |
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Post by bassmike on Jul 24, 2012 15:21:37 GMT
It says it's part of the LOR if you read your clip!!!
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Post by trt on Jul 24, 2012 15:30:06 GMT
It says it's part of the LOR if you read your clip!!! As so often happens, the news article has been edited since I posted my message. As, indeed, has the Wikipedia article on the LOR. Always happens to me, that does.  |
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Post by rsdworker on Jul 24, 2012 16:21:30 GMT
well if they could just rebuild tunnel - its would be great
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Post by rincew1nd on Jul 24, 2012 22:07:01 GMT
Indeed, it is the car garage section that has collapsed, leading to the closure if one the main arterial roads above it.
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Post by rsdworker on Jul 25, 2012 3:50:06 GMT
Indeed, it is the car garage section that has collapsed, leading to the closure if one the main arterial roads above it. ah so that's means business will have to move out and they might have to seal up and abandon it? |
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Post by bassmike on Jul 25, 2012 13:01:00 GMT
In the views shown it doesn't look as if very much basic maintainence has been done, still thats probably par for the course in Liverpool.
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Post by londonstuff on Jul 25, 2012 15:10:42 GMT
In the views shown it doesn't look as if very much basic maintainence has been done, still thats probably par for the course in Liverpool. Hey hey hey, that's fighting talk Bassmike   |
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Post by phillw48 on Jul 25, 2012 15:20:38 GMT
It was probably due to the wet weather we had recently. Liverpool is built on a sandstone bedrock, the sandstone is similar to the cliff that collapsed in Dorset with tragic results.
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Post by bruce on Jul 25, 2012 19:18:15 GMT
Not forgetting the short road tunnel in Dorset that collapsed last week onto a car with two people loosing their lives.
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Post by rincew1nd on Aug 12, 2012 20:54:47 GMT
Interestingly, the collapse is still causing disruption... clicky |
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Post by a60 on Aug 12, 2012 22:23:10 GMT
My oh my, they should rebuild the LOR, and LU should try palming-off some D78s on them.
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Post by phillw48 on Aug 12, 2012 22:56:14 GMT
If they ever rebuilt the LOR or even if it had survived to the present day it would most likely be more like the DLR rather than 'Heavy Rail'. Had a bit more forethought been applied it might still be operating.
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Post by a60 on Aug 13, 2012 9:47:33 GMT
Yes, I suppose. It was the corrosion of the supports and the lack of funds which forced it to close in the end.
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Post by phillw48 on Aug 13, 2012 13:31:05 GMT
Liverpool City Council were asked to take it over but they declined as it competed with some of their bus routes.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2012 20:22:46 GMT
There is a lovely and informative section of the new museum of Liverpool dedicated to the overhead railway. Well worth a visit if you are up that way
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Post by trt on Aug 14, 2012 19:55:18 GMT
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Post by rincew1nd on Aug 14, 2012 20:11:05 GMT
There is a lovely and informative section of the new museum of Liverpool dedicated to the overhead railway. Well worth a visit if you are up that way +1 You can stand on the ground next to the Titfield Thunderbolt and look up at an Overhead Railway train. If you climb the stairs you can board an original Overhead Railway car and sit on the wooden seats pretending you're rattling along above Herculaneum Dock. And it's all free. |
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 8, 2013 18:25:25 GMT
Over a year since the collapse, finally something is happening..... clicky. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2013 22:49:20 GMT
An overhead railway in a tunnel ummm!
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 9, 2013 22:56:01 GMT
An overhead railway in a tunnel ummm! Well how much of the "UndergrounD" is under-ground and how much is above-ground?  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2013 9:47:46 GMT
An overhead railway in a tunnel ummm! Well how much of the "UndergrounD" is under-ground and how much is above-ground? And then you have the situation at Whitechapel - where it goes over the Overground |
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