Bidston Dock

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Bidston Dock, was a dock at Birkenhead, United Kingdom. The dock was built on the side of the west end of Great Float and opened in 1933 & had a trio of moveable cranes. The dock, itself, was landfilled, and the cranes dismantled, in the late 1990's. The dock was served by the Birkenhead Dock Branch railway line & an Iron ore train ran, regularly, to the John Summers Steelworks in Shotton, Flintshire. Due to the nature of the train, a high degree of motive power was required. Class 40s & pairs of Class 25 locomotives are known to have operated on this track, during it's latter days. In the steam era, the Iron Ore train was known to have been hauled by 9F locomotives. Though the dock, itself, was filled, the northern quayside, on which the cranes were situated, & the railway sidings are still intact & have not, so far, had any further use.