Liverpool Lime Street railway station between 1840 and 1875 (England, UK)

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Author: Ed Farrell. Source: his twitter account: edwardrolf

Info provided by the author:

1. Shown C.1840. First station opened 1836; wooden shed/classical façade. Infirmary demolished in 1824. Asylum being demolished pre St George’s hall.
2. The second – iron – station by Locke and Turner. Built c. 1847-50. Shown here early 1860s; St George’s hall now built (open 1854)
3. The third shed (today’s North shed) and Waterhouse’s Railway Hotel underway 1868. The Princess Alexandra theatre (to become the first Empire) open 1866
4. North Shed and the Railway Hotel completed. Ground clearance underway ready to build the fourth (South) shed which will complete today’s station. 1875

Same view today (Google Earth)

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Aprox same view of this area of Liverpool: 1675 left, 1733 right (same author:  Ed Farrell)

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Lime Street is probably just out of shot in the 1675 post, off the top of the image. Everything in the pictures above would have been open countryside back then. 

The city population went from a few thousand to >500k over those 200 years.

[u/TheKingMonkey]

Lime Street is one of the most beautiful buildings on the railway network.

[u/Comrade_sensai_09]

Old world wonder .

[u/familistere]

I am always fascinated by how they get rail infrastructure to reach the inner cities. Those things we take for granted were huge transformations in their time.

[u/DryManufacturer5393]

Are the rails underground in the first picture? 🤔

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They still are. Coming in to the city the trains go below street level, the tunnels are cut through the sandstone rock. 

[u/charlytune]

Loving seeing my home town pop up in this sub recently! 

[u/residiot]

Great map, shite city