Overheads , a brilliant idea . Not used by the numpty town planners of course . Great film 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Thanks for sharing, very interesting.

I was born in 1945 so memories of the overhead are still amazingly fresh. My family lived in Bootle and occasionally we would use the overhead to get from the Pier Head to Seaforth and then bus home. I have a vivid memory of a primary school trip when I was in the final year when I wss probably 10 years old. We were taken to Seaforth on a special bus, then took the overhead to Dingle. Till then, I had never seen the docks south of the Pier Head and, of course, they were full of ships. Then we returned to Seaforth by the next train. On the way back we got off at Gladstone Dock and were escorted around the dock to look at a battleship in the dry dock - the King George V, I think. Then we got back on the overhead to Seaforth. This is one of the most treasured memories of my childhood and I am eternally grateful to my school (Roberts Drive Primary) for arranging it, presumably because they knew the railway was about to close. These films are pure gold to me. As much for the shots of the docks and ships as for the trains. My grandparents were both stewards on the liners so ships and the docks are a huge part of my childhood and teenage memories. I left Liverpool in 1970 for London and didn’t see the waterfront again for about 4 years. On returning, I went up the new St John’s Precinct tower with my girlfriend. I looked open-mouthed at the view of river and said to her - “where have all the ships gone?” The Liverpool I most loved - the overhead railway, the docks, the ships, the city centre before it was vandalised by planners, ended for me that day. I know all Scousers are sentimental about Liverpool but the dividing line between the old Liverpool and the present one was the disappearance of the ships and everything that went with them. Many thanks for these films. Treasure.

I was about 12 and my dad used to cycle with me from the Dingle to the transporter bridge in Widnes and then we cycled to Birkenhead where we got the ferry back to Liverpool. we stopped at a few pubs on the way and whilst dad was in the pub, he brought lemonade out to me. It was a special Sunday treat for me.

Crossing the river is scary❤😊

Wonderful video- thanks!! ❤

Watched the carnival every year i lived at the top of latham ave on Boston

Ruined and turned into a right shithole over the last 60 years.

Lived there in the 70’s. Shit hole!

All them farms destroyed for nothing. Why didn't they spend the money on the areas at Liverpool that needed a make over at the time instead of building a new town. Bet Runcorn was beutifull before the development. I sadly was not born then so only have these vids of what Runcorn used to be like.

Did they ever find Hitler's body to prove he was dead

The war was not a conflict

Amazing history. I can just about remember these trains.

Amazing. Thanks.

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I've been fascinated by the Docker's Umbrella for some years now. What a shame it could be saved and new rolling stock put on. My mum used to take me to Liverpool in the 1950s, the last time I went was in 1958, but by then it was all over. I cannot for the life of me remember it although I probably did see it on the many visit we paid there beforehand.

Fantastic video of a unique part of British railway history! :D I was just wondering, would it be possible for me to use this footage as part of an upcoming documentary I'm creating about the history of the Liverpool Overhead Railway?

Brilliant video, thanks for posting. I visited the Liverpool Museum in the Albert Dock complex earlier this year and was able to see and enter the restored coach No 3. There is a nice feature, with photographs of the line, but this video really puts it into perspective.

Thats my grandad getting of the train at 12:01 😊 Edward Middleton

I love watching this video with Martin Jenkins from various Online Videos. We can learn so much history from him

such a shame, overhead was demolished

Really enjoyed this. That strange happy yet melancholic feeling that nostalgia brings.

This a shit hole now 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The Sand Stone To Build Norton Priarea Come From Runcorn Hill Not Windmill Hill Get It Right

38:00 where it all went wrong… the new town

Nice to see that now the Museum of Liverpool new building near the pier head has the restored car on a piece of simulated overhead line inside the museum and you can look up to it from the ground floor or look into it from the first floor.

Excellent stuff. I remember going down into the garage that was shown in the old Dingle terminus in the 90s, I think it was called Rosco engineering if I recall. I grew up in Caryl gardens, which was opposite the old Royal Southern Hospital on Hill st. The old hand point levers that used to turn the M.D& H.C Trains, into the various docks were still in place up until the 1980s when they did a lot of work for the up and coming international garden festival. The least said about that the better, a total waste of the tax payers money.

I'd swear it was David Thewlis doing the commentary.

The government today is only interested in taxing people out their cars. There need to be proper solutions to traffic. I believe other transport methods such as the overhead railway and trams should be reintroduced.

The only fire that the overhead railway suffered was in the same year it was closed.

Arsonist my Arson…

Rare? It's on KZbin - anyone can see it.

excellent film Thanks for sharing. I lived in the Wavertree area of Liverpool when I was a youngster and my Grandfather often took me and my sister and brothers on the Overhead railway to Seaforth for the day. We used to picnic on the sand and watch the ships coming and going. We loved the old railway it was a great experience looking down on the old docks. I note that the film also shows, in the background, the ever present smog. Terrible stuff in the winter through the 50's. It was a combination of fog and smoke from all the coal fired chimney pots from houses and factories alike. It caused many deaths with it's poisonous fumes. They eventually banned coal for fires and introduced so called smokeless fuel known as coke. That word has a very different meaning today.

Bellissimo video. Very nice video.

Went a few times with my kids, when they young. Great place. Was a bit run down. Back then in the early 2000s.

What a near sided waste of a valuable asset. Many in Liverpool eventually no doubt regretted its lost. It's too bad that no audio film of the line exists. No doubt that the later Beatles rode the LOR at least once.

A great video, with excellent commentary. What a pity that in the 'fifties and 'sixties the British authorities enthusiastically carried on Hitler's work, wilfully destroying so many of Britain's classic buildings and railways.

Great stuff. I swear if I hadn't been told this was Liverpool, some of the shots could be mistaken for New York or Chicago. Very similar when you watch some of those films on KZbin

Fabulous journey back in time and very informative

A great little pice of archive, thanks! So Liverpool had its "Docklands Light Railway" decades before London!

I suppose this video epitomises the passage of time and the conundrums it will increasingly present. Are the Online Videos still copyright? I've got some on VHS from the eighties and nineties. And what happens to monumental archival content such as this going forward? When these scenes were filmed I was still in primary school in south London...one of my VHs Online titles follows a year on the Bluebell Railway n the 1980s, when I was passing through 40. How do we keep this stuff as a record, and how do we make it freely available without incurring the wrath of those who created it and possibly still have a proprietorial interest in it?

Thanks for this - I had no idea this system ever existed and I thought my UK railway history knowledge was pretty good up until now.

Brilliant informative entertaining.. Now they are downgrading Liverpool Heritage status. !!! Complete idiots in charge. Thanks for sharing and taking the time to upload. I didnt know it even existed. Thanks again. 👍😎

If this had been retained, it would probably have become a 'light railway' - similar to London's DLR. Shame about such a lack of foresight. It would be a very useful asset to Liverpool today. As would the surface level Central station, if it hadn't been demolished.

Just shows the short sightedness from all councils that is still here to this day , what a tourist attraction this would be , and perfect for Everton's new ground

Thank you very much for this documentary. I found it very informative!!

The bit at Aintree was very interesting if the Austerty was on a Race Day Special it was indeed one of the few recorded instances of these on Passenger Service. However 40681 was a Simple not a Compound as stated, no outside cylinders being the best visible clue.

Absolutely fascinating what a railway, it's a shame it did not survive. I am so grateful to those who filmed this railway in every detail for us to see 65 years later. Thanks for uploading this fantastic video.

I remember traveling on that when I was a kid , my Dad took me on it he was going to pick his wages up , Great video.i later worked on the Railway as a Signalman at James Street P S B , and before that I covered every Signalbox on the Wirral and Merseyrail . I finished up at Sandhills P S B but was made redundant in 1995 .

Cool.