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Thanks Chriskay! Hope this works...

See! easy.

Interesting to see the map with Warren station on it, which closed in 1915.

Warren Station

That's interesting - I'd got that tramways postcard to somewhere between 1900 and 1920, so that bit about Warren Station puts it before 1915. I grew up on Broadway Avenue which, on this map, is still called Townfield Lane. Rolleston Drive hasn't been built to link Belvidere Road and Sea Road, either.

I wouldn't be too sure about the date of the postcard. It must originally have been produced while the station was still there, but it could have been re-printed later from the original plate in order to save the cost of producing a new one.

Thanks, Zipper. I see that the picture was taken after the closure and demolition of the down platform. The up platform remained until after electrification in 1938.

1920`s it said. I wasn`t around in those days, honest. :-))

Oh, come on; I bet you took the picture.

From the picture Zip, I see Warren Station was immediately next to the bridge over Sea Road. Note the change from transverse sleepers to the longitudinal beams on the down line. These beams were usual when the rails were carried over a bridge.

I was wondering if the picture was taken immediately prior to electricfication (1938). Note what looks like concrete cable troughing stacked on the platform ready for laying. Maybe for the 3rd rail cabling? I doubt if they would be for phone circuits, as at that time all phone and telegraph routes were open wire on poles, crossarms and insulators*.

* Some strange folk actually collect these!

Also note on the map Ginger Lane, on the old 1911 Godfrey map this is called Cinder Lane and it ran from Sherlock Lane to Oakdale Rd. Does anybody know if was ever called Ginger Lane or is it a typo form the map makers?

Dave

I noticed they have left out littledale road ?

Spillers, 1987

Leasowe sandhills. pre WW1

Older than me...