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Very good Pinz

You are quite right on the rotary converters and you guess the date about right, we had cookers etc with the big clunky sprung loaded DC switches. Although not the last DC area in UK it wasn't far off and I think it was the last on the Wirral, also the substation covered a large area and after conversion to AC, us at the extremes of the coverage had a very poor supply, often dropping to below 200V during peak times - the 405 line tele would go ape.

You are also quite correct about no trams on Woodchurch Road - don't know where I dreampt that one???

There's an old street under Renshaw St in Liverpool too...and gawd knows what else. Have a link...

http://undergroundliverpool.co.uk/renshawstreet

Awesome link shambo, thanks

a mate of mine was telling me about this last night he was saying that a very rich liverpool man made them. it is ment to be a mini town it may be worth starting a topic on it

Well, here's an old thread resurrected. You'll need the whole of this map:
https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/278593/1889_Birkenhead_Map.html#Post278593
Now, I don't know who Broom was, but his mapping is a bit slapdash. On the main rail line he's included Bebington & Green Lane stations, but omitted Town station & Monk's Ferry station & he hasn't attempted to show the tunnels on the Dock Branch. However, this is not the point of this post. If you look at the bottom of the map, there's a dotted line labelled "Authorised Connah's Quay railway", which was opened in 1896 & absorbed into the Great Central Railway in 1897. The interesting point which connects with this thread is the branch line, dotted, so proposed, which runs straight up the map, passing the top of Singleton Avenue (which had not yet been constructed, but you can see where it will be). Maybe there really was an underground station built there. The line runs into Central station, which all ties in with the info. which Pinzgauer posted. It's reasonable to suppose that this proposed line would have been underground through the town; after all, they had just finished the Mersey railway, opened 1886, so there was recent experience of major tunnelling.

yerr U'E

Lol

It`s worth doing a bit of research and see if we can find it.

your the man for it go dava go

LOL, if you want a real toughie, try the Borough Rd. overflow tunnel; I'd love some pics. of the junction chamber under Borough Rd.

yer me to how you get in wheels was talking about that

PM me with info please dude

now that sounds like a guddon.

Now look, all you UE guys; I'm only joking about the overflow tunnel. It would be illegal & highly hazardous. Don't try.

We know Chris as Robbo said we only want information on it purely for interest sake.

All the info. I have is in the thread, sorry.

Cheers, Chris.