Lime Street Station, Liverpool

I heard the thousands of screaming fans; refrains of Hard Day's Night played and I saw the ghosts of the line of cars to foil fans as The Beatles disembarked from the train. This was Liverpool. I smile.

Found a room at the YMCA at the suggestion of the tourist authority. Sparse, but clean, located centrally and the price was right!!

Opened in August 1836, it is the oldest grand terminus mainline station still in use in the world. The mainline station is still covered by the vast iron and glass roofs dating from the 1870s. On 11 August 1968, the Fifteen Guinea Special, a return service to Carlisle, was hauled by the Black Five locomotive 45110 from Liverpool to Manchester Victoria and back. Arriving back at Lime Street at 7:58 pm, this train marked the end of British Railways' final steam-hauled mainline passenger journey. 82060913