Fazakerley sidings yard.

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Does anyone know what was the main type of traffic that would have seen the use of the large sidings site there?

 

[flymo]

A couple of shots of the sidings in this link.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/55121-grand-national-1964/

Not a huge amount of info from them unfortunately but interesting pictures none the less.

 

[Ploughman]

There was an L + Y Wagon works there, my Grandfather worked there pre ww2.
When did that shut down?
Was there a timber yard on site?

 

[Bevan Price]

Does anyone know what was the main type of traffic that would have seen the use of the large sidings site there?

Traffic to/from the docks, and freight to / from the Liverpool area. So probably just about any freight that travelled by rail up to the 1960s - coal, minerals, food, factory produce, etc.

Aintree shed would have supplied locos, plus there would be incoming locos from ex L&YR sheds in Lancashire & Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

My thanks for the information supplied. May I now ask if there were goods services from that yard via a chord at Fazakerley Juncrion to the North Mersey Branch and to the Gladstone Dock.

 

[Bevan Price]

The Railway Junction Diagram for Livvrpool shows connections in the area. Fazakerley sidings were roughly in the area between Fazakerley Junction and the (Aintree) Racecourse station.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Liverpool_RJD_42.jpg

A full list of the diagrams available on line is at :

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Railways_Junctions_Diagram_1914

 

[Trog]

There was a P-Way materials depot somewhere there as well. I seem to remember seeing photos of the staff sitting on piles of sleepers that had been shaped so they could be used as a grandstand.

 

[Taunton]

Traffic to/from the docks, and freight to / from the Liverpool area. So probably just about any freight that travelled by rail up to the 1960s - coal, minerals, food, factory produce, etc.

The L&Y was the principal line serving the various Lancashire cotton industry towns, which once led the world in cloth production. All raw cotton is imported to Britain, typically from the USA through Liverpool. Fazakerley handled the bulk of this traffic, bringing it together from different ships and docks and then making up trainloads for various destinations.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The L&Y was the principal line serving the various Lancashire cotton industry towns, which once led the world in cloth production. All raw cotton is imported to Britain, typically from the USA through Liverpool. Fazakerley handled the bulk of this traffic, bringing it together from different ships and docks and then making up trainloads for various destinations.

Thanks for this posting. It was quite a sizable sidings installation on the site that would have allowed for numerous such goods trains to be assembled.