Living close to Kings Cross, Liverpool Street wasn’t quite on my doorstep – but for a few years I helped out in the Salvation Army’s Detox unit at Whitechapel most weekends, and sometimes stopped off at the terminus en route. The Class 37 locos there were an attraction – particularly the split code engines – but the 47s and EMUs predominated and I didn’t feel it worth the time spent breaking my journey. I can distinctly remember the slope down from the road next to Broad Street Station, the taxi road, the longer tracks in the middle with the bridge over them, and the stabling point. I even went up the derelict areas beyond these two termini just to see what was there.
With OLEO buffer heads and split headcodes protruding, D6716 is on a light engine manoeuvre under the overbridge at the end of Liverpool Street Station. It is in original small warning panel green livery, and its cab kicking plates are still pristine. 6####EQ01-LST-D6716-LIGHT
A view still common enough on my early visits to Liverpool shows 6968 and 5577, with a class 47 in the background, parked in the station sidings on 25th November 1972. Beside the locos is the slip road mainly used by taxis from the station, behind the photographer, and with the exception of this road, all is totally different today – entombed under office blocks. 721125A01-LST-d6968-PARKD
A class I particularly wanted to see were the Eastern Region ‘split headcode’ 37s as they didn’t resemble anything else I was likely to come across. With an unusual “cross-eyed” look, 37092 is on a PW train at Liverpool Street Station, next to the taxi slip road. 761105A01-LST-37092-PARKD
Finished in Stratford’s hallmark silver roof distinction, 47172 “County of Hertfordshire” runs light engine under the recently installed catenary at Liverpool Street Station on 29th August 1979. On the wall behind buddleias grow from adjacent Broad Street Station. 790829A01-LST-47172-LIG_D
Broad Street Station towards the end of its existence in the 1980s. Visual focus is the signal box, and closest to the photographer is a virtually unused island platorm, flanked by buddleias, as rationalisation economies limited its operation to the minimal number of roads. An EMU waits to return to Richmond now the signal has cleared. 8####BI01-LST-S_BOX-VI__N
The Eric Curnow Collection 