Where can i find pictures of the old railway (ralla), the west derby station and when it leads up to three butt, would love to see some pics when it was active.
There seems to be remarkably few photo's of that station in operation.
The best are probably
here.
I do remember when passenger services stopped in late '60, and as a kid was quite miffed as my Mum & Dad had never taken me on a train from there.
I think they were largely Prairie tanks (might even have been the occasional class 3) pulling a couple of maroon non corridor coaches but also the odd green and whiskered DMU.
The line itself stayed very active for a good few years after though, with various steam and diesel hauled goods & coal diagrams around every 15 minutes in both directions.
Once steam finally finished in '68, Liverpool was one of the final places, and with the decrease in demand for house coal for heating as well and the shifting of everything to the container docks, the traffic dwindled and the line became a lot less used, got reduced to a single track sometime in the early 70's and then was lifted in '79.
Would have made a good route for a light tram network.
