The Liverpool Overhead Railway also knows as The Dockers Umbrella had a total of 19 stations in all in its life span of 63 years from 1893 to 1956 it joined onto the Southport line to Seaforth and Litherland Station which for a short period between 1905 and 1914 saw trains run all the way to Southport, the overhead railway also connected onto the North Mersey Branch and trains stopped at Ford station, Linacre Road station and Aintree Racecourse Station until 1908, trains also stopped at Aintree station via a connection from the North Mersey Branch from 1906 till 1956. At the other end it ended at Dingle Station previously Hurculaneum station until 1896, the line never went any further than Dingle Station the tunnel beyond was just a siding it never lead any where although there was talks to extend it which never come to be.

 

 In the second world war the line took some bad damage but the line still remained open after the damage was fixed, The line was in a bad state and in need of replacement at an approximate cost of two million. This was beyond the financial resources of the company, who looked to the City Council and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board for assistance. No adequate solution could be found and, despite rigorous public protests, the railway closed on December 30th, 1956. The Liverpool Overhead Railway Company went into voluntary liquidation. The service was replaced by a bus service operated by Liverpool Corporation, Rescue attempts continued right up until September 1957, when the dismantlers moved in. The iron bridges were soon removed for scrap, leaving little trace of the railway.

 

The only trace that there was ever this railway is some of the cut off iron support post they are mostly in the wall at Wapping dock also in some places you can see the tracks of the railway that run under the overhead railway, also the tunnel leading to Dingle station is still there and the some traces of the Dingle station itself are still there, this station site is now disused and dangerous and has no access to the public, since Liverpool docks has now gone into a decline this railway will never be reopened but it will always be a huge part of Liverpool’s history, its good we still have photos for memories, the last know footage of the railway is in a film from 1951 The Clouded Yellow. In resent talks the TV programme Most Haunted where in talks to visit the close Dingle underground station as it is known to be haunted from the fire of 1901 on Christmas eve where many people burnt to death in the station, but due to health and safety it was not allowed, in 2013 the Dingle underground station collapsed in on itself and had to have huge repair work carried out to make the houses above safe, which many traces of the orignal station where lost, Also the new Liverpool museum has recreated Pier Head station, with an original train on the platform.

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 Stations Along Overhead Railway

 

 

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