Back in the 1930's, my grandpa was Head Porter at Kirkdale Station, which was our local rail station, (we lived in Ida Street, off Argos Road). He had his own little office on the Ormskirk bound platform. Sometimes, when things were quiet, Grandpa would take me to the station, and show me round. One time, he even took me to the Kirkdale West signal box, and I was mesmerised by all the levers and things. I have many happy memories of Kirkdale Station, as it was back then. Happy days!

People will now believe me when I told them Sandhills had Four wooden platforms. It wasn't from this great video either that I now this. I used to work at Sandhills / Bankhall / Bootle Oriel Road stations in the early sixties when I had dark hair and curls. Many many years later I returned to work at Sandhills as a Supervisor based in the grey building situated at the east end of the station platform. My office was just a small portion of the building as it was also used as a train crew changeover point. They nicknamed us supervisors as 'Troubleshooter' our role was to go wherever trouble occurred in the close vicinity of the Sandhills Junction points. Etc etc. So nice to see the old place again as it was and as it was further back. Thanks for the reminder. ( I'm 75 now you can work it out when I had the dark hair).

Another great video! When I saw the title 'Change At Sandhills' it sent a shudder down my spine. My memories of this station as a young lad in the 70's was it was totally exposed, windswept, freezing cold and it seemed that you always had to wait forever for the train you wanted. Before each journey my sister and I always asked 'Do we have to change at Sandhills?' it was a cause of gloom when a positive response was given to this question; it seemed a hellish place! Glad to see it has now been rebuilt. Thanks for all these post.

Very interesting and informative video. I lived in south Liverpool, so never came through this area very much - so I was astounded at all the goods lines both to the docks and to the goods yards in this area. Some terrific photos too. Well done!!!!

Funny just imagining things as they were, and then you show them. The big building on the right was Tillsons cartons and packaging. The only time you'd ever go to Sandhills was to change, or walk up and get the bus, or to go the match and walk up Fountains Rd. The underpass and seeing it again as it was...that was a foreboding place on a wet evening after the match. Never was a station given a more misleading name ! Ace as always even after several repeats.

Very interesting buddy 👍🏻

Enjoyed that mini documentary, well done, keep up the good work. 😊

Thanks for another detailed video looking forward to the next instalment

Excellent video, thanks for sharing

Very good video well done

another great informative video .. thank you

My earliest memory is losing a toy boat down the edge of the platform in the 1970's

It seems silly to have brought the line down from 4 tracks to 2. Especially with the stadium near Sandhills and with possible (but unlikely) frequency improvements in the indefinite future, double-tracking all the way to Central seems like a no-brainer. With Central being the busiest station in the country outside of London, the fact it's a cramped little island platform that serves 3 different lines is a farce rendered almost comical. Not to mention, the confusion of not knowing which train is which when running onto Central's platform would be rendered null and void if there was one island platform for the Southport line and another for the branch lines, and would free up all of the lines for potential (but, again, unlikely) frequency improvements.

I needed to get to Southport from old roan, someone said you need to change at sand hills then come back on yourself on the Southport train . Not a bad station is sand hills.

What strange looking conductor rails at

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So the Liverpool overhead railway was replaced by Merseyrail as we know of today.