Liverpool Area Behind the Scenes Tours - 18th November 2024

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Some of our tour group on the end of Liverpool Lime Street P10 with the decommissioned Lime Street Signal Box right.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]	Walking back along P10 towards the concourse, there is a Class 807 'Evero' in P9 (they only entered passenger service here seven days before).<br>[© Phil Wieland 2024]	Bessie Braddock (who went to work on an egg) and Ken Dodd, with his tattyfilarious tickling stick.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]	The Liverpool Pals Freize.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]	(Through glass) A small section of the former piano-like lever frame from Liverpool Limes Street box in the upstairs Standard Class Waiting Room.<br>[© Phil Wieland 2024]	The whole Lime Street lever frame during a 22 Sep 2017 Society visit before decommissioning.<br>[© Angus McDougall. 2017]	At the upstairs Standard Class waiting area 'mini-Museum' - taken through glass - the former Lime Street signal box diagram on public display.<br>[© Phil Wieland 2024]
The architecture at the entrance to Rail House (complete with the top of an unexpected bonus black Beanie Hat).<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]	The inscription on an original paving stone from the mid-19th Century that was covered over in 1955 during platform refurbishment.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]	The Ball & Higgins memorial that was at Edge Hill Depot and is now at Lime Street.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]	DMU approaching Liverpool Lime Street on 23 Jul 1983.<br>[&copy; Angus McDougall. 1983]	Liverpool Lime Street Undercroft.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]	Some standby emergency batteries. INSET Old light switches.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]	The former Midland Railway Warehouse which, was never directly rail served, and is Grade II Listed.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]
A stone carving on the former Midland Railway Warehouse.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]	An entrance to the former Midland Railway Warehouse.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]	The saved grasshopper' steam pumping engine at Shore Road pumping station.<br>[© Phil Wieland 2024]	The 'grasshopper' steam pumping engine high-pressure and low-pressure pistons and the pump rod.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]	A safety notice.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]	The gauges on the 'grasshopper' steam pumping engine.<br>[© Phil Wieland 2024]	The modern working pump heads.<br>[&copy; Phil Wieland 2024]