First draft of an illustration showing two of 8 construction shafts or 'eyes' along the Wapping tunnel in Liverpool - during its construction in 1827/8. A plan shows the location of all 8 shafts (see R H G Thomas p39).

L&MR Panorama study, Back in Liverpool for research oin the Wapping tunnel and a reconstruction of Wapping station itself. Initially trying to establish the position of shafts or eyes used to build the tunnel. Bear with me as always @vrsimility.bsky.social and @lmrailway.bsky.social A start....

The next section of the L&MR bridge study - block 2b- V2. Including the mystery bridge at Whiston, subject of previous post.

Still baffled by the Whiston 1 bridge issue. Discussion board attached and grateful for any comments, opinions, musings, insults etc. as always. Find it hard to believe there was no station (or halt??) at Whiston (until 1990??). Originally wondered if this was ex 'Bottom of Whiston Incline' .

@lmrailway.bsky.social Hi Paul. re Whiston bridges -1830. The bridge list shows Whistons 1 and 2; both stone. The OS map for 1840odd seems to show a level crossing, two wooden bridges and bridge 2. A later bridge roughly takes the place of the western most wooden bridge; struggling to see bridge 1.

Liverpool Road Station Version 3. Multiple amendments (stonework, building details, street furniture, horses etc). Still tbc for Version 4 - a) coal-drop detail, b) departures roof, c) arrivals exit. Thanks very much all for comments etc.

Liverpool and Manchester Railway, panorama study (features) block 2A - Ainsworths Bridge to Lee's Bridge number 1; numbered 8 to 20 on original list. Thanks to @lmrailway.bsky.social

Thanks very much for your analysis etc. around the coaldrops Vrs and I am just catching up. I had discharge into the Station, but had another look (attached) and wondered what might be best guess re discharge direction/design. Should I just be showing a blank wall??!! Anybody else got owt?

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Thanks all for comments; really grateful. Very interesting stuff (not the least of which shunting and coal drop arrangements!) which I am looking at. Re arrivals passengers see attached... @lmrailway.bsky.social @hillsider45.bsky.social @vrsimility.bsky.social @railwayhobbit.bsky.social

Re: Previous. A slightly better res and intensity.

Reconstruction of Liverpool Road station 1836, version 2. For comment. Very grateful for input and resources from @lmrailway.bsky.social @hillsider45.bsky.social @vrsimility.bsky.social @railwayhobbit.bsky.social etc. Part of a wider project to map the L&MR 1830s

Continuing preliminary studies of the L&MR infrastructure c. 1835. Lea Green to Newton. Only now beginning to appreciate the enormity and genius of the undertaking at that time and its miraculous delivery

Manchester weekend. Visited Liverpool Road station for 1st time on a day apparently like 15.9.1830 by courtesy of a family trip to the amazing Hockney experience at the Factory surprisingly close by.

I attach a discussion board containing a speculative study of the coal drops at the Eastern end of the Liverpool Road terminus, Manchester as they may have looked in 1835/6. I'll keep researching but does anybody know of any images or descriptions that might help? Any other interpretations? Thanks

Block 1/bridges (panorama project). I've seen the TT Bury picture described as Whiston incline/Sutton incline/Broad green to Roby. If here, then Bury is standing on no. 1 Park's bridge?? (next one - no.2- is brick; though could you get that height and are distant ones in the Olive Mt. cutting?).

@lmrailway.bsky.social Just in the process of roughing out bridges in adv of the panorama project. Wondering how to interpret the bridge list P (thanks so much) re dates and google map etc. E.g. the Whiston run has some odd things (and Spring Lane?) unless I am misinterpreting? (usually).....

A further infographic. The 4 branch railways connecting to the L&MR -1830s. This, together with the diagrams of L&MR features and the station survey (see previous), pulls together information from many sources and will underpin the planned panorama of the line. Thanks to the L&MR trust. Comments? Ta

L&MR station list infographic based on V2 research table - previous post

Revised list of L&MR stations (1830s).

@lmrailway.bsky.social Hi P. Just revisiting some work we did re the stations/stops in the 1830s. Thought it worth settling a list plus a couple of puzzling things as attached. Would be glad of a view if you get time. Cheers

Just on the design of successive cisterns. Attached discussion board attempts a summary of the position: following a probable red herring. I think currently at least, that the water tank is pretty much as shown by Bury throughout the 1830s - until later works/expansion cause a new build.

Discussion board re: a potential reverse view of the Liverpool Road arrivals station. Possibly v arcane problem, but views, images, opinions, ridicule, superior knowledge etc. v welcome as ever.

A further speculative study. (Lpooll Rd. terminus, Manchester): how the arrivals station may have looked in a) 1835/6 and b) 1837/8. Assuming the latter an open fronted building at 2nd floor (2 colonnades). Extensive carriage wharf inside; Many stables, stores, kitchens below. Pedestrian exit??

Developing views on the viaduct and possible 1836 arrivals position (below). A mistake to place arrivals here?? - scores of passengers, tons of luggage, road carriages; unless there was some easy way off. Would a Water street footbridge fit, or indeed help? Did the S slope serve only the cistern?

@railwayhobbit.bsky.social @lmrailway.bsky.social @vrsimility.bsky.social might be useful to share this, admittedly rudimentary (between walks) sketch for next 1835 version. Some assumptions obvs. Not sure how the early arrivals colonnade fits in the space. Assume still crossed the lines??

A cloudless Windermere day

At the Manchester end of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. A sketch giving the context for the Liverpool Road terminus. Mid 1830s.

Liverpool & Manchester Railway. A description of how the rail-track or 'permanent way' developed.

@lmrailway.bsky.social . A new project to illustrate all 31 miles of the L&MR with information panels along the way. First steps.All aboard..

Continuing research into the Edge Hill engine station, an approximation of the rope winding mechanisms that operated through the Wapping tunnel for dock-bound goods wagons (gravity out/cable back).

Re: previous post. Edge Hill Engine Station - mid 1830s. How trains were detached from locomotives and rope-hauled to Crown Street station.

Continuing research into the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, a new and more historically accurate version of the Edge Hill Engine station illustration - mid 1830s. Showing the connection between it and Crown Street Passenger station - top right - via a 290 yard tunnel.

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Aerial view from 1988 over St John's Beacon, the new Clayton Square complex under construction, The Walkways in the Sky still in place over Roe Street, shot from a Cessna 172 and using a Hasselblad camera @angiesliverpool.bsky.social @yoliverpool.bsky.social @daveyph.bsky.social

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Watercolour reconstruction of Liverpool waterfront area around Mann Island and the warehouses/pubs of 'Nova Scotia'. 1890. Including docks, foreground buildings serving the cross-Mersey underground railway and - just in - George's dock (right) later filled in to build the 'three graces'.

Re: previous post - some annotated features.

Watercolour reconstruction; Liverpool 1823. . What existed before St. George's Hall? The first Liverpool Infirmary and asylum, the Seaman's Hospital, a cattle market pre Lime Street station, St John's church, and Shaw's Brow before the grandeur of William Brown Street. Nothing remains.

Watercolour reconstruction of Liverpool's Dale Street area/Commercial Quarter in the 1860s (cutting diagonally) with Tithebarn St clipping bottom left, Cavern Quarter top right and Municipal building under construction, top left. Orientation is rightwards to the waterfront.

Watercolour reconstruction of Liverpool, 1769; the delta of Church Street and Hanover Street: featuring St. Peter's church (the 'pro-cathedral') and the Blue Coat School. Based on a contemporary map by John Perry. Left, the lengthy tree-lined rope walks that would become Bold Street.

Watercolour reconstruction of Liverpool's Herculaneum pottery (c.1815) once located in Toxteth Park. Opened 1790s, closed 1841, replaced by Harrington and Herculaneum docks.

Reconstruction of 'Mulberry', the first ship to leave Liverpool's Old Dock in 1715. (Where Liverpool One is today). The ship was owned by Bryan Blundell. Master Mariner, slave trade participant and one time Mayor. He is famous for founding the Blue Coat school two years later

Some 60 years later and Liverpool is unrecognisable from it's 1675 manifestation. The pool filled in to create the Old Dock, the castle gone and the town on the verge of commercial success: in part involving a - regrettably - growing part in transatlantic slavery

My watercolour reconstruction of Liverpool as it would have looked in 1675.