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Brilliant Andy, Also my Dad worked as an engineer with Houlder Bros and another memory is coming up the Ship canal on MV Oregis overnight to unload iron Ore at Irlam Steel works the next day 😊

Remember queuing for what seemed hours in the rain at Trafford Park in the 60s to walk through one of the Subs

Well researched and shot. Well done.

One Bar, so he was not the captain

Hi Andy , very interesting - I had no idea all of this was there. Excellent bit of local history.

The visits continued into the 80's. We visted them at Salford and also played football against them. I was oñ the first Laporte hydrogen peroxide fire in the early 80's. I was stationed at Irlam GMC Fire Service and our pumps had much higher capacities than Cheshires and were usually usec as base pumps but on this occassion we ended up as the crew nearest the fire for some stange reason. The plant engineer arrived and I accompanied him right up to the tank. He says something on the lines of 'Oh shit' turns and legs it. Well callme chicken but if the plant engineer decides to leg it then I'm going to overtake him, wellies and all. We just got behind the cover of abrick building where the rest of my crew was when they was an almighty roar and this tank started off to orbit space. A change of underpants later and we were stuffing our faces with hot dogs and tomato soup courtesy of Cheshire FB canteen van. At one stage of this fire puff balls of what seemed to be hydrogen peroxide foam floated out of the sky and as they made contact with the water on the ground would erupt in flames. Seeing this and all of us already being saturated from the water screen protecting the adjoining tanks we started dodging around like idiots trying to avoid these foam balls landed on us and making it a bad bad day. Eventually enough foam compound stocks arrived for us to lay and maintain a foam blanket which became a hazard in itself with one of my colleagues disappearing out of sight into a hidden foam filled pit. Of course you never get any sort of sympathy once we ascertain there are no injuries. It was quite the sight seeing this cursing foam covered apparition rising from his pit having dropped both his hot dog and his tomato soup. 🤣🤣

One of "Elvis Costello Album' Famous for Oliver's army a photo them in front of the observer try

Sort your grammar out mate ! At 5:38 it's "Should HAVE had a mask on" not "Should OF" !!

I got a legger once off a load of lads from one of the arcades, for beating the local hard knock's pinball high score. Ended up in those Derwent Gardens. Pretty sure I hid under that bridge for a bit. :D

Great stuff.

Lived there 20 years, never knew it existed.

Having been born in Latchford, I can tell you it’s not “just outside Warrington”. It’s a district of Warrington. I saw the subs in the locks when I was a kid in the 60s. It was an amazing sight. Large ships were a daily thing and the locks were always busy.

Why don't they turn it into a heritage railway, tramway or a light rail system instead of leaving it like that.

i think this line used to strech as far as bhead north, i actually rmember the old diesels when i was kid in 70's as my nan lived round the corner :) good place to hide during ww3 lol

hard to think that something this amazing is no longer in use, as a leeds lad I used to love working in Liverpool, the people and the city are/is so welcoming, I would've loved to have seen the docks area is it's busy times...great vid thanks for sharing

Brilliant video Andy 🎉

Amazing just come across your video is there any chance you can tell me were this is please

My old stomping ground, interesting. 👍🏻

great playing Andy

Fantastic brickwork. No idea it was like this. If in London it would be used for shops etc. thanks mate.

Well done Andy! Great film,really enjoyed it,music was good too! You shouldve looked inside the tent! Big shame of all the rubbish dumped and graffiti real pity.Keep up the good work with the films cheers

Thank you that brought back some fond memories. May farther worked at Massey Ferguson back in the 70s and my mum would park our crappy car in the lay-by and my brother and me would play on the train lines till Dad came out. And the smell of Kellogg's, mmmmm.

Excellent. Lovely video. Very interesting

Great info thank you for posting.

Great video, Andy. Good to meet you today. Colin

Striking, as we did, pretty near north-west across the island, we drew, on the one hand, ever nearer under the shoulders of the Spy-glass, and on the other, looked ever wider over that western bay where I had once tossed and trembled in the coracle. The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the bearings proved the wrong one. So with the second. The third rose nearly two hundred feet into the air above a clump of underwood-a giant of a vegetable, with a red column as big as a cottage, and a wide shadow around in which a company could have manoeuvred. It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart. But it was not its size that now impressed my companions; it was the knowledge that seven hundred thousand pounds in gold lay somewhere buried below its spreading shadow. Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island 1881.

Glad you had a good time in Darren 🌹

wow this is nice one thanks for this wonderful tour i love man utd as the stadium tour was just an amazing new friend here greetings from BHutan god bless and he happy!

Another brill history and heritage video...topman...

Excellant vid Andy

Quality ,loved the old trafford park container line video you did .Hope one day you may do the old disused Timperley to cadishead railway.Remember seeing those shunters on the back of a huge HGV being taken away,one of them may be in the museum in york i was told .

Andy. This is a fantastic bit of footage. I`d really love to walk the path you have here, but you`ve captured it superbly. Oh how I wish I had a time machine! I know there are plans for regeneration in parts of the town and have heard that this part of the line will be built into some sort of walkway/path. Surely this has huge potential in being made in to a great site seeing walk and retaining all the fantastic brickwork etc you`ve captured. 30 years of crap built up. It does make you wonder how some of that has got so far into those tunnels without being driven into there. Anyway, thanks again. Hope for another in a few years time, with positive changes. Although, if it does happen, won`t have the same appeal as being abandoned like it is now!!

Thanks Andy, interesting, informative and fascinating. 👍🏼

Where was the line for the Irish cattle boats to slaughter houses

Would love to have a walk before this is altered for regeneration

Nostalgia in this video, I used to live In Livingstone street that runs off corporation road opposite the south Atlantic building and the house I lived in had since been knocked down too it’s quite strange going there now considering how busy it was when I was younger, in fact the goal post is still on the wall where morans cash and carry was that we made when we were kids lol 😂

Great video, very interesting place.

I knew Pete 50 years ago, great bloke, and plenty of knowledge about bikes and the TT.

most of them train lines come from john summers steel works in shooton to lairds

This has brought back a memory, I seem to remember going with my dad to see submarines on the ship canal. It would have been before 66 as we moved away then. I thought it was Salford docks, but i was only 6 or 7 so I could well be wrong.

Iron ore trains never used this line they went via Bidston toward Wrexham

Me and my mate chris were train guards at birkenhead north, about 1987,and had a days"refresher"walking the whole section of line between rock ferry and canning street, and,there was! someone in a tunnel section, lying down,moved!, we cacked ourselves and promptly continued..still laugh about it still...(and we had to sign the signalmans occurance book at canning street to prove to our sceptical traffic manager we had walked the line,and not skived off to the boozer..which we promptly did straight after..."the bloodtub"pub,over the road from birkenhead north station...

It looks like someone has been down there trying to steal some of the rails. And I can never understand how they can do it when they're about 60 foot long and weigh about a ton each or just under, depending on what type of rail they are. So how can they transport them out of there?

It's 30 years this year since this line was closed in about 1993, if what I've heard is accurate. And I can remember it still in use and I often went down there to birkenhead and walked around where it was from early 1989 but I never saw any trains in action on that line. And someone should get a bunch of yobs on community payback to clear that line and make it into something decent like some kind of museum or heritage centre.

Great vid man👍 i used to do urban ex years ago! How come no new content?

I remember listening to the freight trains down the hill passing by Green Lane on to Rock Ferry. That was in the 70's. Hopefully, they will turn it in to a park (current plan). They have recently ripped up the tracks on Corporation Road. Thank you so much for making this film, I have always wondered what it was Luke down there.

The first time I noticed those tracks was when I looked over the wall on Argyle Street. Always wanted to go down and check them out but never got round to it. I did go down the tunnels that stretch from the old flyover down to Woodside back in the late 80s. Good times

It is heart breaking to see the railway line in this neglected condition. In 1972, with many Malaysian school leavers, I left home to fill the gap of staffing the NHS. In those days Britain recruited potential nurses from its old colonies and we were some who answered that call. At every check points( in our journey to our individual destinations) we had coordinators in London who would put us into the correct trains that would take us to our training hospitals. I remember vaguely travelling from London to Liverpool and then changing to Birkenhead. This must have been that train station where I got out to catch the taxi to St Catherine's hospital. Today, the geopolitical change is causing many British to fill the gap for teachers in international schools, in my country. Some are humble and some arrogantly believe that they deserve royal treatment. Guess who are popular.

Much appreciate 👍🏻

Great video. I drive past the crossing and around the route of the old railway a lot and have always wanted to see what was behind the walls and crossing gates. Really good video thanks 👍