Information - Merseyrail Tunnel System - Subterranean Lake with boat plus some unfinished headings...

[Buffplums]

There wont be any photographs of the vents or drainage in detail mate, you'll have to get down there and have a look for yourself for those.

Just standard track runner snaps, its not the place to poke about as you can't hide!

how do you get into the tunnels ? I can’t imagine that you would walk in from the entrances as CCTV would pick you up going through Hamilton Square or James Street if you approached from there?

 

[dweeb]

One assumes this links to the underground lake under the dry cleaners in Bootle?!

Take these legends with a pinch of salt. There was probably a reservoir or atresian well at some point which may have had a boat on it once to do an inspection. The legend is born and it soon becomes a cavernous affair in the minds eye.

That said I have seen underground "lakes" with actual boats so perhaps its not as impossible as the sceptic in me would think!

 

[Buffplums]

Well it wasn’t a myth when it was passed to me from someone who actually worked In the tunnels

 

[Buffplums]

There are many wells under the city of Liverpool. The Cains one is known.

 

[danthedrummer34]

This is something right up my street, entering the tunnels at night is easy but its a fair walk to James Street Station.

 

[westernsultan]

Of course over time facts change and it is possible someone is mixing up Liverpool with Sydney where there is such a lake https://www.news.com.au/national/ns...d/news-story/de0147c78c833003c918aba0413fcfa8 whereas in Liverpool there is this listed walkway Liverpool city centre passageway many people 'don't know exists'

 

[bobdobelina]

Fascinating. Did any of the Cains underground caverns get converted to anything when it was all renovated? Punch Tarmeys has some weird thing going on near the toilets which I’ve never paid much attention to.

 

[bobdobelina]

This is something right up my street, entering the tunnels at night is easy but it’s a fair walk to James Street Station.

Is it? Do you just walk onto the tracks after midnight? I’ve often wondered this as I’ve been sat at Hamilton square. Aren’t the tracks live even after the last train? How do you know they don’t send an out of service train down there?

I’m just interested as I want to explore that. I don’t fancy getting a £1000 fine though.

 

[Speed]

Yes, sometimes, you don't.

 

[danthedrummer34]

Mystery of hidden 'lake' discovered beneath the city centre

There is a whole world that exists below Liverpool's bustling city streets

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

 

[danthedrummer34]

The live track is either on the right or the left side of the tracks that the train wheels sit on, the train is connected to the live rail which sets the train in motion. Walking from Hamilton square to James Street would be a fair walk, but i dont know if they send a service train after the last train has departed.

 

[danthedrummer34]

If you get caught, £1000 fine and a rail safety course..

 

[bobdobelina]

It’d be nice if they opened those tunnels up for a tour one night

 

[westernsultan]

3rd rail DC rails can be isolated in sections but staff are always told to assume it is live. You may like this article

Third rail - Network Rail

We have the largest third rail network in the world, powering electric trains, and it’s mostly found on tracks in the South East of England When we talk about the third rail, we mean the live rail which provides electric power to a train through a conductor placed alongside the rails. Nearly...

www.networkrail.co.uk

 

[danthedrummer34]

It’d be nice if they opened those tunnels up for a tour one night

True that, a sneak mission could be possible.