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To cater for the increased freight traffic from the docks, [[Liverpool and Manchester Railway]] | To cater for the increased freight traffic from the docks, [[Liverpool and Manchester Railway]] obtained an Act of Parliament in 1845 to build the Waterloo branch, running north west from Edge Hill. The L&M Railway had been absorbed by the [[London and North Western Railway]] by the time the line was opened in 1849. The route was mostly underground, through the [[Victoria Tunnel]] and [[Waterloo Tunnel]].<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Goods_railway_station] Wikipedia - Waterloo Goods railway station</ref> At the entrance to the goods station, the lines were crossed by an impressive brick arch bridge carrying L&YR line from Great Howard Street Goods Station. Immediately alongside this,the Waterloo branch was crossed be an large cast iron arch bridge, the [[Great Howard Street Bridge (Liverpool)|Great Howard Street Bridge]]. This was later joined by a steel girder bridge when the road was widened. | ||
The station was demolished in the early 1970s and the lines were lifted, although the tunnels remain. In 2016 the [[Great Howard Street Bridge (Liverpool)|Great Howard Street Bridge]] was demolished to be replaced with a new one. This would allow the line to be brought back into use in the future to serve Liverpool Docks. | The station was demolished in the early 1970s and the lines were lifted, although the tunnels remain. In 2016 the [[Great Howard Street Bridge (Liverpool)|Great Howard Street Bridge]] was demolished to be replaced with a new one. This would allow the line to be brought back into use in the future to serve Liverpool Docks. | ||
Revision as of 23:06, 16 January 2022
No longer extant.
To cater for the increased freight traffic from the docks, Liverpool and Manchester Railway obtained an Act of Parliament in 1845 to build the Waterloo branch, running north west from Edge Hill. The L&M Railway had been absorbed by the London and North Western Railway by the time the line was opened in 1849. The route was mostly underground, through the Victoria Tunnel and Waterloo Tunnel.[1] At the entrance to the goods station, the lines were crossed by an impressive brick arch bridge carrying L&YR line from Great Howard Street Goods Station. Immediately alongside this,the Waterloo branch was crossed be an large cast iron arch bridge, the Great Howard Street Bridge. This was later joined by a steel girder bridge when the road was widened.
The station was demolished in the early 1970s and the lines were lifted, although the tunnels remain. In 2016 the Great Howard Street Bridge was demolished to be replaced with a new one. This would allow the line to be brought back into use in the future to serve Liverpool Docks.
1849 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
'The North Railway Station at Liverpool.— The new station of the London and North Western Railway Company, in Waterloo Road, Liverpool, which is reached from Edge-hill by the recently-constructed Victoria tunnel, contains five acres of land, the entire of which is either occupied by warehouses or covered with zinc shedding. The span of this shed is 183 feet, covering seven lines of rails - the whole cotton quay — from which can be loaded 20,000 bales of cotton daily. The principal entrances to this station are from Waterloo on the one side, and from Great Howard-street on the other, and these two thoroughfares form its eastern and western boundaries; Stewart-street stands on the north, and a block of warehouses on the south. This is the largest goods station in England.
It has eight lines of rails, with a space of eight feet between each line, to allow horses and men to pass in safety.
The warehouses erected here are the finest, perhaps, in the kingdom. They are far larger than any other warehouses in Liverpool, and are constructed on the best principles. The rooms are each 102 feet 90, containing an area close upon 1000 square yards.
All the work will be done on these premises steam power, and an engine of 50-horse power has been erected ; but, fearing this amount of power may not be sufficient, the engine house has been built large enough to allow a second engine of the same power to be put up. In each of the rooms there are two water plugs, which, in case of fire, can be at once turned, and a plentiful supply of water obtained.
To form this station upwards of 120 separate properties, consisting of more than 150 dwelling-houses, warehouses, sheds, yards, &c., were purchased and pulled down.
At the top end of Stewart-street, adjoining Great Howard-street, is a vacant plot of land, on which the general offices of the company will be built. These offices will be of great extent and magnificence.
Upwards, from the Waterloo station, the station extends under Great Howard-street, which is supported by a neat iron girder bridge, of 116 feet span, erected by R. Daglish, jun., St. Helens ; and, a little further on, the station passes under the gigantic brick arches which support the Lancashire and Yorkshire goods station at such an altitude over Great Howard-street. This arch has a span of 100 feet, and contains upwards of five and a half millions bricks. Here the Irish pig traffic will, for the future, be taken, the pigs being made to walk into the trucks bv a very simple arrangement; cattle will continue, as usual, to be got into the waggons, at Edge-hill, where the company’s cattle station contains 102 pens, capable of holding 1200 head of cattle.
The station accommodates the Liverpool market, and leads to the mouth of the tunnel, the dimensions of which are as follow :—Dock to tunnel, 500 yards ; tunnel to Byrom street, 854 yards ; Byrom-street. under, 69 yards ; tunnel from Byrom-street to Edge-hill, 2717 yards; total, 4140 yards. The wire rope for this tunnel is three miles long. Trains are drawn up the new tunnel by means of four separate engines of 100 horse power each.'[2]