The attached extract from the Mersey Railway's share prospectus of February 1884 shows that the company had plans to run freight at night. The mind boggles at the idea of steam-hauled loose-coupled trains attempting the gradients in the tunnel. The question is how would they have reached it? Presumably goods branches to connect with the L&Y and CLC at least would have had to be built, possibly with wagon-hoists like the one between the GE and East London.
It makes me wonder how such cross-estuary freight was handled. Were goods wagons ever loaded on to what the Americans call car-floats on any British estuary, as they were and still are between New York and Jersey City/Hoboken (America's Birkenhead)?
It makes me wonder how such cross-estuary freight was handled. Were goods wagons ever loaded on to what the Americans call car-floats on any British estuary, as they were and still are between New York and Jersey City/Hoboken (America's Birkenhead)?