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AN OUTDOOR BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING TWO ENGINEERING BRICK BUILT ROAD AND RAILWAY BRIDGES CROSSING THE DISMANTLED MIDLAND RAILWAY LANGTON DOCK GOODS BRANCH LINE, BOOTLE, SEFTON, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND. UNITED KINGDOM. EUROPE.

IN THE FOREGROUND IS THE SMALLER 'TALBOT ROAD' BRIDGE LEADING ONTO THE MARSH LANE RESIDENTIAL ESTATE. LATER THIS BRIDGE WAS DEMOLISHED.

THE LARGER BRIDGE IN THE BACKGROUND IS THE NORTHERN RAILWAY COMMUTER LINE BRIDGE FROM LIVERPOOL TO SOUTHPORT SUPPORTING THE BOOTLE NEW STRAND RAILWAY STATION.

THE OLD MIDLAND RAILWAY LANGTON DOCK BRANCH GOODS RAILWAY CUTTING WAS FILLED IN TO SLAB LEVEL AND THE REMAINING RAILWAY BRIDGE ARCHWAY WAS USED BY THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO HAND PAINT THE 'TIME TUNNEL MURALS'.

 

LATER ASDA SUPERMARKETS CREATED A 40,000 SQUARE FOOT 'ECO -- SUPER STORE' ON THE SITE, THAT OPENED IN 2008. CREATING 350 NEW FULL AND PART-TIME JOBS.

 

PHOTO-CREDIT: WILLIAM DOLCE.

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Uploaded on November 13, 2023
Taken circa 2007