Merseyrail History Remembering Liverpool Exchange

I forgot to tell you that when Exchange closed,I took "susie" the station cat home with me!!

lovely video. As a Manchester man I appreciate our shared history which is found in relics the same here and all across the English north

I left Liverpool Exchange Station with my mum and 2 younger brothers on the last steam train out of the station, going to Carlisle. We came back on a diesel electric. Going out, I remember spam sandwiches, biscuits and orange squash and s smoke. After that, I regularly came to visit my Nanna in Vauxhall Gardens from Bootle Oriel rd until the station was closed.

Hi. Just a little bit if trivia for you. I was the last booking clerk at Hall Road Station, and in 1977 I was the last booking clerk at Liverpool Exchange station, covering the night turn as the 'last train left'. ( I think it was to Ormskirk). Both good stations to work at. Happy Days!! Nice nostalgic videos!!

Thanks, great insight, sad ending to a great station. As a boy I travelled by steam jubilee or class 5 from Exchange to Grimsby

You have produced an excellent video of broadcast quality..! The commentary and background music couldn't be better, and the tempo and clarity whereby you explain the historic details is very pleasing to listen to.

Used to go train spotting every Saturday at Exchange in the early sixties aged 10 - 12. Highlight was after cabbing the station pilot, 2-6-4 tank, the crew let 2 mates and myself travel with them in the cab to Bank Hall to collect the coaches for the Glasgow express. To cap it all our train waiting to take us back to Kirkby was double headed with Jubilee class Orion at the head. Happy days!!!

great this! i remember the type of train to southport in the '60s and the old Exchange station with orange lodge filling it on July 12th to go to scouseport for the day. wonderful old photos in here and well researched too. i take my hat off to you. well done

Very nicely done, great sense of timing with the commentary.

It's so sad that when a railway station gets shut down & never used as a railway station ever again I feel rather upset by it. As I never got to ride on certain railway lines (trains on such routes) I would have loved to ride the overhead railway But. Sadly that was closed , shut down & removed all evidence of it ever being in existence ( or most of it ) it was removed before I was old enough to travel alone. So, I sadly never got that chance.But, it so nice for someone to have some information & clips of what the station & trains of yesteryear was like for people to reminisce about. (Hopefully all good memories for them) & for others to take in some history to learn from.

A station I never really used, as I always plumbed for Skelhorne St and the bus to Crosby. Thanks for the video.

Excellent film, many thanks. Sad to see what has happened to the immediate area of Exchange. My Dad took me to see the new diesel loco 10000 at Exchange around 1956(?), so nice memories.

There was a pedestrian tunnel under the station to the Liverpool Stadium.

Great video, thanks so much. Great memories of Exchange from my childhood up to my formative years. My Dad was actually on bomb watch in there during WW2 and later worked in the Hotel. I have many stories of Exchange. Sadly missed.

I lived in Vauxhall gardens, on a top floor flat ,used to watch the steam trains on the way in and out of Exchange ,we could also watch the turntable from my friends in Highfield gardens

So grateful we have YouTube to watch this fantastic documentary of a station lost and will probably never return thank you for making it sharing it with us x

Really enjoyed this, I love my Liverpool history. I'd often heard my Nana talking about exchange and central, when I was young in the 90s I'd always assumed she meant the underground Liverpool Central station.

I was on the last special out of Exchange the night it closed. Went via Wigan back to Lime St. I still have the commemorative ticket signed by the driver and guard, plus a small article in the Echo. I was 13. At least the frontage was saved, unlike Central and so many others around the country.

Just watched this again, and was amazed at how much information and detail I had missed when I watched it the first time. Really is well produced and full of interesting information. One thing I really like is your responses and how they open people up into sharing information. There are some lovely interactions between people in the comments; so you really are doing something just right. Well done!!! I only visited Exchange a few times as a kid with occasional train rides to/from Southport. I remember a Joke shop quite close to the station, pure nirvana for a preteen like me. Moved from Liverpool in the early 70's and am itching to get back to relive my childhood, covid permitting. Cheers, Ian

Superbly narrated, very informative, fascinating photos and the music was just right. Many thanks!