Records of J.W. Willans relating to the Liverpool Overhead Railway.

Summary

385 WIL/1. Copy resolutions relating to the formation of the Liverpool Overhead Railway Company. 6 docs., 1887 - 1889

385 WIL/2. Copy estimates, 11 docs., 1888 - 1891

385 WIL/3. Invitations, menu cards, etc., 150 items, 1892

385 WIL/4. Programmes, 1 doc., 1893

385 WIL/5. Tickets, 1 item, 1893

385 WIL/6. Photographs, 14 photographs, (undated)

385 WIL/7. Plans, measured drawings, etc., 111 docs., 1889 - 1892

Acc. 392

Records listed at 385 WIL 1 - 6 below were presented to this library in October 1945 by J.B. Willans of Dolforgan, Kerry, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire. The plans, listed at 385 WIL 7, were donated by J.B. Willans in October, 1948.

Old nos. : Kf 283

Df 1962

According to Charles E. Box The Liverpool Overhead Railway, 1893-1956, 1962, the line from Seaforth to Herculaneum, with the exception of a quarter of a mile between Nelson and Huskisson Docks was built on a steel viaduct. The viaduct or "structure" was designed by the engineers Sir Douglas Fox and James Greathead and the erection was carried out under their supervision by the resident engineers, Francis Fox and S.B. Cottrell.

The contractor for the work was J.W. Willans of Manchester. Most of the work he sub-contracted to other firms, retaining only the excavation, concreting and repair work of the columns. In the detailed design of the superstructure, the engineers were aided by F. Hudleston of the contractor's and G.A. Hobson, who also designed the decking.