Talk:Edge Hill railway station

Listed buildings
Reminder to self: four separate listed buildings at the station: Hassocks 5489 (tickets please!)  22:22, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Station building (Grade II*)
 * Engine house (Grade II*)
 * Hydraulic plant house and accumulator tower (Grade II)
 * Carriage ramps and tunnel entrance (Grade II)

Missing info
When did the first station open? I assume 1830, but the article should explicitly say (with exact date if possible). 86.154.8.126 (talk) 03:06, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

I have clarified this point.--Train guard (talk) 12:08, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Junctions
There is mentioning of a junction 400 yards east of Edge Hill, but there should also be a junction west of Edge Hill. At least I would expect so because there are 4 platforms in use at Edge Hill. Is that right? --Marcocapelle (talk) 08:07, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * No. There are indeed four platforms at Edge Hill, but there are also four tracks all the way into Liverpool Lime Street. If there were just two tracks between Edge Hill and Lime Street, there would need to be a junction at the west end of Edge Hill. Of the four tracks, the northern pair are connected to the southern pair by two crossovers (one for each direction) which are both east of Edge Hill; there are also crossovers between Russell Street Tunnel and Mount Pleasant Tunnel, but those are more than a mile to the west of Edge Hill, but only about a quarter of a mile out of Lime Street. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:05, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks for clarifying!--Marcocapelle (talk) 11:33, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

More Q's
Excellent start. But there are a number of obvious questions which none of the sources I've seen answer. You'd have it all over those un-achievers if you answer them:

1. Why did they put the Hercules exhaust stacks at the opposite end of the cutting than the stationary engines? Why weren't they co-located? Boring horizontal flues thru solid rock just to send up exhaust in a different location? I don't understand.

Note that the ref. in FN 17, Angela Connelly et al., Liverpool's Lost Railway Heritage, 2011, manchester.ac.uk (search on author), p.18, claims there were additional engines at the western portals, beneath the stacks, an amazing statement I've seen nowhere else. True?

2. Stationary engines pulled trains up inclines. But Crown Street was at the top of an incline. The engines were down in the cutting. So how was power transmitted from the engines to Crown Street, enabling trains to be drawn up there? Was there another engine up at Crown Street?

3. Description of the ropes needs to be elucidated:

3a. You say the rope ran down the centers of the tracks. Where? Several feet off the ground? Obviously, if you look at Bury's excellent illustration, you see that they rode on pulleys or rollers near ground level. You need to state that.

3b. What was the function of the pulleys? Did the ropes ride on top of or underneath them? If they rode on top, wouldn't they get lifted off the pulleys while pulling a train? Or wasn't that a problem?

3c. You say trains from Wapping were pulled up into Edge Hill by rope. That is a noun. By contrast, you say trains were wound up to Crown Street. That is a verb. Consistentize phraseology. What mean wound? Was it a rope operation as well?

3d. For that matter, why does Bury show each of the two Wapping tracks but not the Crown Street track fitted with a rope?

3e. The Wapping tunnel could be fitted with a rope loop because it was double-tracked. But obviously not the single-track Crown Street tunnel. How did that rope operate?

4. Another obvious question: If Wapping and Crown Street were remotely located from the engine house(s), how was the engine house notified when to start hauling a train? I think I know the answer, but the article needs to cover that topic.

Jimlue (talk) 00:40, 30 April 2020 (UTC)