My mother worked in Wapping station 1954, I have a lovely photo of her in uniform RIP MUM xxxx

What a wonderful old railway, and fantastic old film footage. The 1950's and 60's were notorious for sweeping away old transport systems.

Throwing away something that worked for a second best,is now common in both Britain and the US! The bus replacement was twice as slow,than the railway, but that was progress,really?? Many municipalities have had to painfully rebuild that which was destroyed! Los Angeles,for example has had to virtually recreate the Pacific Electric from the ground up,and it cost billions! The question is,who benefitted from the destruction originally,and why weren't the politicians held to account for their derelictions,and, breaking of oaths???Judgement is at hand,and we'll find out,sooner than people think,and it will hurt those who,"got away with it",!! Thanks for showing that video,as I had a copy,and it renewed my interest in Liverpool,and environs! 😇❤💯💯💯💯💯👍👍👍👍👍

Brilliant film in every sense, many thanks. I can just about remember the "Overhead", born in 1951 in West Allerton, L18.

Just remember seeing LOHR train at Seaforth and Litherland (very young but a train spotter even then). Very good video!!! Southnig

Travelled on overhead from 1949 to its closure in 1956 to my Grans in Dingle. Superb film and memories. Thank you very much, and don’t forget ‘no spitting allowed’ ! Off at Herculaneum dock, up the iron bridge, left into Grafton Street, left into Caryl Street right into Caryl Grove.

Absolutely fantastic! Took my breath away, I have never known such an industrious time.

What a brilliant 'documentary' love it!

What a tourist attraction this would be now.

As a born and bred Scouser, this brings a tear to my eye. A south end working class lad. My uncle was a Shunter at Brunswick shed. The Docker`s umbrella was a magnificent achievement. I have 30 yrs service, on our Railways to date and these guy`s are part of our city`s great heritage. I worked as an Apprentice in the seventy`s on Great Homer Street and my workshop foreman`s uncle was a Guard, on the L.O.R. What a claim!!!

We moved to Liverpool to n 1947 I remember going on the railway from pier head to dingle What a Shane it was dismantled

what a shame that would have made a lot of money to day

@paulmason4616

3 жыл бұрын

Mike Sull - The LOR would NOT have made money today. The line of docks are deserted. Tourists would only come in the summer so the trains would be largely empty for much of the year. The only shipping to look out for would be off the LOR line. The LOR would have only survived until the 1960s. Even the bus routes which replaced the LOR have gone.

Thanks for taking the trouble to upload. Fascinating.

What a great little film. I heard about the dockers umbrella from my Grandad who worked as an liquid sugar tanker driver for Tate & Lyle. My Dad took me to Dingle station in the 70's when it was a garage and left me to go exploring the second hand cars that were lined up either side of the tunnel whilst he was in the office, long before the roof of the tunnel collapsed. No reconstruction around the Albert Dock ever happened.

I was living in Liverpool when the overhead railway and the tram system where scraped. The talk at the time was that vast amounts of money was made from the scrap metal no wonder they started the rip down of the overhead within the month of the last train. As far as a I am aware the city never received a copper coin for the scrap though a lot of people where made rich on the scrap metal proceeds. One day if there is any justice in this world some one will insist an getting answers about what happened to????? because members of the city council trashed two of Liverpool's largest up and coming tourist attractions, to line peoples pockets with money.

@nigelsabin1713

3 жыл бұрын

Councilors!!!! Don't trust any of them. They are all corupt.

We this need back!

@paulmason4616

3 жыл бұрын

David Griffiths -Forget it - it would cost £500 million. The government would not give Liverpool a fraction of that sum for a tramway. The LOR only existed because the dock Road had a ground level railway preventing a tramway being built.

I remember two visits to the Overhead, one from school in about 1953, and the other with my parents viewing the burnt out hulk of the liner "Empress of Canada". Big days out from mid-Cheshire!!

@martincarty6015

4 жыл бұрын

my dad took me from preston for a trip on the overhead railway and dad pointed out the Empress of Canada i never knew it had been destroyed by fire i would be about 10 years old this video brought back happy memories any idea how the fire started Greetings from Bulgaria

@studebaker4217

3 жыл бұрын

My parents took me to see the Empress of Canada in dock, in about 1955, presumably before the fire. As we looked down at the water, a long brush came out and painted a patch. Funny what you remember as a kid!

The Overhead Railway never became part of the LMS and was never nationalised in 1948, perhaps if it had it may have survived a little longer.

Pollution, the elements and steam trains running under the super structure all added to the cost of maintaining the line. Such a shame as it would have been a great way to see the city now.

Sadly all traces of the LOR had vanished by my childhood (It was being demolished when I was born). I missed the Liverpool trams by five months as Well!

My mum said the only time she used it was to visit her father when his ship docked once a month when she was a young girl in the 1930s. It was still there when I was very little and we made very occasional trips to Liverpool, but to be honest I was too young to remember it. It was in a dreadful state of repair when it was closed and the port business was shrinking fast so its whole reason for existing had gone. Sad really

Very interesting! It’s unfortunate the video quality cannot be cleaned up!

at 22.23 is not the bridge what carried race day people the grass slope in front of the bridge is were the bridge use to be were the overhead went & the grass on the right side of video is were it use to curve to enter Seaforth & Litherland station now star of the sea school as seen at 25.55 great video

Could you please confirm where this tape came from? From one of the Liverpool Museums?

This is a commercially available video, produced by Online Video. It is a straightforward rip-off of their copyright. Very clever....

@Madmont

4 жыл бұрын

I couldnt find a digital version of it when I uploaded so thought I would digitize it before i got rid of all the old videos, as well as it been not the greatest quality and so old I didnt think it would be an issue anymore, happy to take it down if they have an objection...

That OSD is so annoying. Play Hi-Fi Stereo! Completely distracting. I think your VCR is faulty!

@Madmont

4 жыл бұрын

It definitely was, best i could do and it was a quick last minute decision before i lashed everything out - soz :|

Is that Malcolm McDowell

@HughTerry69

4 жыл бұрын

No.

Amazing footage of a light rapid transit system from before the term was coined. I like to think of this railway as an ancestor to London's elevated Docklands Light Railway. If it had survived I can imagine it being automated in the same manner as the DLR.