Liverpool Overhead Railway
The Liverpool Overhead Railway (known locally as the Dockers' Umbrella) was an overhead railway in Liverpool which operated along the Liverpool Docks and opened in 1893 with lightweight electric multiple units. The railway had a number world firsts; it was the first electric elevated railway, the first to use automatic signalling & electric colour light signals, electric multiple units, and was home to the first passenger escalator at a railways station. It was also the second oldest electric metro in the world being preceded by the 1890 City and South London Railway. In the early 1900s electric trains ran on the electrified Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to Southport and Aintree. Special trains to Aintree for the horse race meetings ran twice a year after regular services were withdrawn
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Alexandra Dock (LOR) railway station
Brocklebank Dock railway station
Brunswick Dock railway station
Canada Dock (LOR) railway station
Canning railway station
Clarence Dock railway station
Dingle railway station
Gladstone Dock (LOR) railway station
Herculaneum Dock railway station
Huskisson Dock railway station
James Street (LOR) railway station
Langton Dock railway station
Linacre Road railway station
Nelson Dock railway station
Pier Head railway station
Princes Dock railway station
Sandon Dock railway station
Seaforth & Litherland railway station
Seaforth Sands railway station
Toxteth Dock railway station
Wapping Dock railway station
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Liverpool Overhead Railway
The Liverpool Overhead Railway (known locally as the Dockers' Umbrella) was an overhead railway in Liverpool which operated along the Liverpool Docks and opened in 1893 with lightweight electric multiple units. The railway had a number world firsts; it was the first electric elevated railway, the first to use automatic signalling & electric colour light signals, electric multiple units, and was home to the first passenger escalator at a railways station. It was also the second oldest electric metro in the world being preceded by the 1890 City and South London Railway. In the early 1900s electric trains ran on the electrified Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to Southport and Aintree. Special trains to Aintree for the horse race meetings ran twice a year after regular services were withdrawn
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Die Liverpool Overhead Railway ...... mber 1956 fuhr der letzte Zug.
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The Liverpool Overhead Railway ...... mantled in the following year.
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Надземная железная дорога Ливе ...... шая существование в 1956 году.
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1956-12-30
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1.1265408e+4
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1893-03-06
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September 1957 - January 1958
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Liverpool Overhead Railway Company
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Docker's Umbrella
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Die Liverpool Overhead Railway ...... Großbritanniens verstaatlicht.
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The Liverpool Overhead Railway ...... egular services were withdrawn
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Надземная железная дорога Ливе ...... шая существование в 1956 году.
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Liverpool Overhead Railway
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Liverpool Overhead Railway
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Надземная железная дорога Ливерпуля
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Liverpool Overhead Railway
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