In 1974 I found myself working in the Royal LiverBuilding and living in Hoylake, commuting by train. I had no idea the heritage of the 1936 rolling stock I used every day! I subsequently witnessed the introduction of the new stock and was a passenger on the first day the Liverpool loop opened to traffic. I also remember that steep walkway going up from James St! Thank you for the video and the education!!!

Thank you for an excellent video. A delight in so many ways. As a youngster, I well remember the Westinghouse and Cravens stock. I always made a beeline to sit in a Motor car and listen to all the electro-pneumatic contactors clattering away as the Motorman notched up. Vivid blue flashes from the collector shoes bouncing back off the tunnel walls. Such a shame No.1 was destroyed in the Derby fire. You've unearthed some hitherto unseen pictures (by me anyway) of the old stock - beautiful. Well done ! One appears to show the duplicate negative rails that were laid on the under river section only. Most informative.

Westinghouse is a well known name on the whole railway system with its signalling systems in signalboxs across the country but famously installed into lime Street signal box in 1947 which was open until the late 2010s with the original frame by them in use until the end

It's great to see such a bright colour picture of the first generation mersey electric units, I didn't know such a picture existed. I think most people on merseyside who are old enough will know about the LMS stock from 1938 but there never seems to be any mention never mind pictures of the original stock. And they look a bit similar in some ways to the original Lancashire & Yorkshire units on the Manchester Victoria to Bury line.

Thank you. Fair enjoyed this series.

Very interesting video, thanks

Interesting. No wonder having electrified railway lines underneath makes it lot more cleaner, greener and more efficient than having Steam or Diesel trains running underneath. Very good video. :)

Absolutely brilliant video. 😊

I am not sure how I feel about the new voice over, which I think is a text to speech thing. It really does take away that personal touch from a local historian, which is what made these videos hit really close to home. Great content though.

Super video. More please

excellent very interesting - thank you!

Great video of some remarkable engineering and historic railway history, I travel on the crossriver trains quite regularly always thinking of whats has gone into the making of this network , the narrator of the video was was very professional, job well done all round.

wow ... *s o* much info crammed into such a short output ... wow

The system should have kept the fourth rail as it's a far better system for underground railways as it reduces current leakage into the ground and reduces corrosion of stuff like gas mains for instance, a dangerous situation. And I bet they sometimes forgot to unhook those air hoses before setting off and ripped them out sending dangerous high pressure air blasting out!

35 seconds musical introduction? Behave, you dont get that on Sky or ITV!