The first two photos were taken on 21/6/67. Steam and diesel
were then found alongside each other at Mollington Street. When we went again
on 15/10/67, there was still a good mix. Steam finished there on 5/11/67, as we
discovered when we returned on 3/12/67 and 31/12/67.
The last visit we made to Birkenhead sheds was on a cold,
bright, winter’s day in late 1968 or early 1969, when we went on from there to
Wigan [for Spring’s Branch - final picture], and then to Hawarth and the
Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. I suppose that represented a transition in a
single day, really, from a former reliance on the national network for our
entertainment, to a new emphasis on the preserved lines. Birkenhead sheds closed in 1985.
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