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During the last week of November 1969 Liverpool Corporation Transport took delivery of its last bus before it's operations were amalgamated along with that of the corporation of Birkenhead and Wallasey into the newly incorporated Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive or the MPTE as it's usually called which formally took over on the 1st December 1969.
The bus was number 1111, a Leyland Atlantean PDR2/1 with Alexander of Falkirk dual door bodywork seating 79. it was the 1st of a batch of 125 double deck buses that were built as 'One Man Operation' OMO following a recent change in legislation which allowed OMO Deckers which until that time had been restricted to saloons only.
1111, along with three of its colleagues did not enter service until a couple of weeks after the MPTE had taken over, initially operating on the newly reintroduced 510 Liverpool Central Station to Prescot route.
The bus went on to operate in paddenfer service for the MPTE for 12 years running routes operated out of the North Division garages og Green Lane Walton and finally Gillmoss before being withdrawn in July 1982. it then spent just over a further 4 years as a driver trainer for the MPTE.
Fortunately the MPTE generously gifted the bus to a local group of enthusiasts for restoration and it became part of the Merseyside Transport Trust collection on our formation in 1999.
To celebrate it's 50 birthday and to commemorate the formation of the MPTE, the Merseyside Transport Trust took the bus on a members routes tour on 1st December 2019 that took in some of the buses former haunts.
1111, accompanied by fellow resident of the Merseyside Transport Trust collection, 1236... a 1972 Atlantean reminiscing busier times on Liverpool's dock road when the buses were busy carrying the thousands of Dockers to and from work.
For more information on the Merseyside Transport Trust please visit our website www.mttrust.co.uk
Battle of Britain 34067 'Tangmere' with Northern Belle 'S&C Steam Special' 1Z70 York - Carlisle passing over Docker viaduct, Saturday 2/4/22.
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Standing alongside the Salisbury Dock in Liverpool the "Victoria Tower" built aid ships in dock along the River Mersey
20227 & 20188 departing from Gloucester with the "Sharpness Docker" railtour on 17th September 1989. This was one of a series of short shuttle railtours that were operated in conjunction with the Horton Road open day.
New Year and a new freight operator on the China Clay, as GBRf take over. 92032 glides effortlessly towards the Lune gorge at Docker with the first working on the 6S94 2-03 Dollands Moor - Irvine Caledonian paper Mill on Wed 4th Jan 2017 @ 11-05
92019 ( on hire to DRS from DB Schenker ) heads north with the daily 'Tesco' train, 4S43. It is seen at Docker on its way from Daventry to Mossend. Taken on a beautiful 8th September 2014 at 0948
43047 / 43055 at Docker on 5Z43 11:00 Crewe Holding Sidings - Carlisle, the ECS for tomorrow’s Midland Pulman ‘Torbay Riviera Pullman’ 1Z23 06:08 Carlisle – Paignton, on 30/05/24.
I have to admit being a tad disappointed that the Large Logo tractor wasn't leading but never mind the weather made up for that. 37521(D6817)+37409 sounding brilliant at Docker this morning with 5Z84 08.28 Crewe HS - Carlisle Upperby C.E. Sdgs. Thursday 30 November 2023.
Standing alongside the Salisbury Dock in Liverpool the "Victoria Tower" built aid ships in dock along the River Mersey
50050 tnt 45118 powering the The North Western Wanderer (Inter-City)1Z45 0802 Crewe to Carlisle, over Docker Viaduct. 10th August 2024.
Even units aren't bad in these conditions, 185139 races south at Docker with 1M96 11.09 Glasgow C - Manchester Airport, Saturday 2 February 2019.
Back to full health after work at Carnforth, West Country Pacific 34067 'Tangmere' makes a splendid sight romping through the North Lancashire countryside on a test run round the Carnforth - Hellifield - Preston - Carnforth circle. The line here turns through 90 degrees before dropping down to Wennington having passed over Arkholme viaduct and through Melling tunnel.
Still remarkably 60 foot jointed Bullhead rail here and great to hear the Mk1's singing as she passed through at speed.
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In lovely light, 45690 'Leander' passes the gallery at Docker heading up Grayrigg bank. This was 'The Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express', 21/01/17
The standard shot at Docker i suppose but nice to see a uniform pair of 90's. 90018 and 90040 head the 0606 Mossend Euroterminal to Daventry on the 31st of May 2018.
With the Lakeland Fells in the background we see the daily Freighliner operated Intermodal head north in Cumbria. Grey liveried 90044 leads 90047 on 4S44, 1213 Daventry - Coatbridge fully loaded Intermodal , on the 5th September 2018. It is seen at Docker at 1551 caught in late afternoon sunshine.
Still in mint EWS livery 90029 "The Institution of Civil Engineers" rolls through Docker at pace whilst in charge of 1Z70 Carstairs-London Euston. This was the return of UK Railtours four day tour of Scotland.
It would be nice to see this loco return back into DB livery one day!
Dockers pulpit, Wapping, 1981
29g-31:,street, shelter, viewpoint, Tower Hamlets,
I asked one of the old men who sat in the park looking out across the river about this structure; he was a former docker ande told me it was the "docker's pulpit" where union leaders addressed large crowds of workers.
The park, Waterside Gardens, is still there, off Wapping High St opposite Reardon Path, but this structure is long gone, probably demolished when the gardens were enlarged around 1989. There is now just a small decorative gazebo which might provide a little shelter from rain.
The building behind has been replaced by an uglier modern building which goes right to the edge of Reardon Path (in the 1890s Red Lion St), while the derelict range further down the path was converted in 2018 into Red Lion Court, 'Luxury Warehouse Apartments and Penthouses'. Further down the street, Willoughby House, the first of a number of council blocks built by the LCC with the Commercial Gas Company as a part of their 1926 Wapping Housing Estate slum clearance scheme.
The gas company as well as laying pipes and installing meters, also fitted 824 cookers, 138 heaters, 324 brackets and a number of gas coppers. The brackets were presumably for gas lighting and the coppers to boil your washing. We had one in the kitchen at home when I was a boy, along with a mangle outside and a washing line down the garden path. The Wapping flats had "excellent facilities for drying the household washing", lines outside in tar-paved couartyards, and there were also "a number of flower beds, interspersed with patches of green turf".
Willoughby House was one of 12 blocks containing altogether 824 flats. Each block was named after a famous explorer who sailed from the area. According to material from Tower Hamlets Local History Archive put on-line by Harry Mernick originally published in 1932 in "The Copartnership Herald:
'Sir Hugh Willoughby was appointed captain of a fleet of three ships, which set out in 1553, with the object of discovering a north-eastern passage to Cathay and India. Two of the three ships reached the coast of Lapland, where it was proposed to winter. Soon after January, 1554, Willoughby and his companions died of starvation, and a few years later their remains were found, together with Willoughby's Journal, which is printed in the first volume of Richard Hakluyt's famous Principal Navigations.'
One of my favourites from holiday, due to the ever changing light on this evening. With the Howgills in both sunshine and dark shade, the southbound 'Tesco' passes Docker. 68018 leads 68021 with the Sunday 4M48, Mossend - Daventry. Formed of a uniform rake of containers it is seen at 1751 on the 4th September 2016
The sun is out from behind the clouds just long enough to get 88010 "Aurora" at Docker with train 4S43, the 06.24 Daventry - Mossend TESCO.
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“That looks like an interesting day trip, lets do that next weekend”
The Liverpool Overhead Railway ( known locally as the Dockers' Umbrella ) was an overhead railway which carried passengers from one end of Liverpool Docks to the other. It opened in 1893. The railway had a number of world firsts: it was the first elevated railway to use electric power, the first to use automatic signalling and was home to one of the first passenger escalators in a railway station.
At its peak almost 20 million people used the railway every year. In its later years it was promoted as a tourist attraction, “See giant ocean liners and 13 miles of the finest docks in the world”
In 1955, a report into the structure of the many viaducts showed major repairs were needed that the company could not afford. The railway closed at the end of 1956
( thanks to Jeff Wharton for re enactor photo, geheugen.delpher.nl for background photo and Bing for poster artwork )
I couldn't resist putting another shot of the 'Tesco' from Docker ( I seem to put this shot up after every time I have been on holiday in Tebay ! )
In morning sunshine 66's, 66305+66426, power up Grayrigg with 4S43, the Tesco train from Daventry - Mossend, on the 4th September 2015 at 0952
Docker Viaduct - with a touch of pole.
Avanti West Coast "Pendolino" 390130 rolls over Docker Viaduct with the 08.38 Glasgow Central - Euston.
Taken with a pole.
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It's all getting a little too uncertain with cloud as TransPennine Express "Nova 2" set 397004 heads south at Docker with the 08.12 Edinburgh - Manchester Airport.
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