Many thanks to Richard Davies for sending in the above of photo the rails being replaced on the Merseyrail West Kirby line.
New track is being laid with wooden sleepers being replaced with pre-formed concrete ones. I have noticed however that some of the line up to West Kirby hasn’t been replaced – I don’t know if it’s being left as-is or will still get replaced at some point. Of course, trains haven’t been running from and to West Kirby and the seemingly unpopular rail replacement bus service has been in operation.
Richard doesn’t say but I think the above photo might well have been taken from Meols bridge, looking towards Manor Road Station. I crossed the line at that foot crossing the other week and walked along a footpath that leads to fields behind Fornalls Green Lane. By the way, just about all the trees facing the line along Bertram Drive North have been cut down. Was that due to the track works or for some other reason?
Did you know? There’s a second, “secret” fishing lake in Meols. Most people know of the lake right next to Meols station that Birkenhead Angling Club use. But there’s another lake nearby. By chance, I read that there’s a private lake in the fields over the line from Bertram Drive North. If you use the satellite view in google maps, it’s clearly visible.
I think the lake that your referring to used to be the figure 8 as my brother Dave Beech used to call it, he used to go there along with Dave Lindfield John Marriot Wally Woods and a few of the other lads from Newton Road when they were lads to fish there.
Yes! The “Figure of Eight” lake. We used to go there in the 50s to collect frogspawn and sticklebacks. We traipsed over there from Beachcroft Road, led by a group of older kids who knew the way. In my memory we used to go there via Heron Road but looking at the satellite picture it seems a long way round to go there!
On an “anoracky” railway spotter note, the rail replacement work looks a wonder to behold. My sister lives alongside the line next to Manor Road station and even she is impressed by the scale and speed of the work. She says they are working under floodlights at times. Her dog is the only one not impressed – the noise of the tracklaying and ballasting machines is tremendous – and she takes to her bed(the dog, not my sister) as the whole house shakes.
Nb : The locally owned Bertram Drive North lake was created relatively recently and is totally separate from the ” frog spawn and winter ice skating ” Figure of 8 lake remembered by many contributors .
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Val
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I have sent a note to Network Rail congratulating them on a job well done asking when the noisy side is going to be done.Also people are up in arms about the preposal of a four story building at Hoose Court.