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I loved going to my aunties on the Number 10 (410 know) to liscard and that place spelt wonderful.. I can know live that smell all the time when my dad makes Bait for fishing as they use the same stuff as the fish go nuts for it i'll have to get the name of it hehe..

just always made me think of lollipops lol

just on about old streets. do my eyes decieve me or has hibbre street been buldozed

Yup placid hilbre street along with the mini estate off Livingstone street near corportation road there all gone.. One street i remember from there Vardon Street and the others.. There all gone..

Click here to see what i mean

Heres the houses in view on another sat image..

Clicky with the houses there

jonno that was first class i well appreciate that, i had mates there and now its all gone

when a snickers was a marathon

Who remembers "the Triangle" - a big pond at the junction between the electric train line as it curved around from B'head North to Wallasey Village and then straightend and ran past what is now Mosslands School - and the line with steam trains (in my day) taking coal to somewhere (John Summers?)

I have been tring to pinpoint the location on maps / Google Earth to work out what is at the current location.

I knew very stick and twig of the way to get to the triangle.

Me and the bigger lads used to use grappling hooks on a rope to pinch big hunks of coal off the waggons as they went past - I was only a nippa but post war fuel shortages led to all sorts of games like that.

Snodvan

Yep. Remember the "Bidston Triangle" well. They lifted the Bidston-Wallasey leg a few years ago. I think there's just a short headshunt there now. That leg was the section used by the trains to Summers's from Bidston Dock. Iron ore trains pulled by dirty great Class 9F's. It had a third rail, but was only used by the electric trains on odd workings, turning etc. As a child, I would cycle down to the footbridge at Biddy Station and watch the (then) many different trains. It was a busy place then!

Here's a link to the triangle. You can see the headshunt & the line of where the track used to run.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=53.410031,-3.071773&daddr=&mra=mi&mrsp=0&sz=16&sll=53.410274,-3.071752&sspn=0.005922,0.011544&ie=UTF8&t=k&z=16

You can still trace the line of the track round to Bidston dock & what appears to be marshalling yards. If I remember correctly, this line was called Slopes Branch. (Pinzgauer will correct me if I'm wrong).
Cheers, Chris.

Quite right Chris. Slopes Branch. It veered off right just past the north apex of the triangle. The branch split again, left to Liscard and Seacombe Stations, right to Bidston Dock etc.

Given its name after the name of a large residence in Breck Road called "The Slopes".

At first I thought yes, that is the right location.

HOWEVER - there is something wrong. I used to get to the Triangle by starting from north side of the enbankment at the small bridge over the end of School Lane. I am sure I kept only to the north side of the enbankment and that brought me direct to the Triangle. However, the map shows that starting from that point you have to cross the electric railway line. No way did I cross the line. There is a tunnel under the enbankment at a point close to the Mosslands allotments and at times I did go through that tunnel - but only to get onto Bidston Moss.

I am wondering if the location was closer to 53 24 53.23N 3 04 04.22 W Click Me (Sorry no good at doing links onto maps - yet)

That would be correct for the electric line but would depend on the route for the "other" coal carrying line. I thought that would be where the motorway is now ie leading towards Seacombe

Snod

my dad is into steam trainsan knows bout stuff like that

OK, Snodvan; I see where you mean now (if your co-ordinates are correct). If you look on Google Earth, you can clearly see the line of the old railway; it's immediately to the North of a curved line of trees & South of the Docks Link Rd. The passenger line branched off near here to go to Seacombe, via Liscard & Poulton station. The Kingsway Tunnel Approach uses the old rail cutting here. The goods line (with your coal trains) curved off to the right, heading for Bidston Dock.
I think your reference to the "triangle" misled us into thinking you meant the clear rail triangle just to the East of Bidston station.

Cheers, Chris.

can anyone pinpoint where Liscard and Poulton station was, and leaswoe aswell please.

Thanks

Also remember when Starburst was opel fruits.