• Thumbnail for Liverpool Overhead Railway
    The Liverpool Overhead Railway (known locally as the Dockers' Umbrella or Ovee) was an overhead railway in Liverpool that operated along the Liverpool Docks...
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    elevated railway was the Liverpool Overhead Railway, which operated through Liverpool docks from 1893 until 1956. In London, the Docklands Light Railway is...
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  • Thumbnail for Liverpool Overhead Railway Southern Extension Tunnel
    The Liverpool Overhead Railway Southern Extension Tunnel, also known as the Dingle Extension Tunnel or variations thereof, stretches for half a mile from...
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    control was first used in electric multiple units in the 1890s. The Liverpool Overhead Railway opened in 1893 with two-car electric multiple units, controllers...
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  • Thumbnail for Liverpool Overhead Railway electric units
    The Liverpool Overhead Railway opened on 6 March 1893 with 2-car electric multiple units, the first to operate in the world. Each lightweight car had a...
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  • Thumbnail for Liverpool Lime Street railway station
    Liverpool Lime Street is a terminus railway station and the main station serving the city centre of Liverpool. Opened in August 1836, it is the oldest...
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    Multiple unit train control was first used in the 1890s. The Liverpool Overhead Railway opened in 1893 with two-car electric multiple units, controllers...
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  • and Liverpool hosting the world's first and second urban rail transit and Glasgow the fourth. From 1893 to 1956, the Liverpool Overhead Railway was the...
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  • Thumbnail for Dingle railway station
    Dingle railway station is a disused underground railway station located on the Liverpool Overhead Railway (LOR), at the south end of Park Road, Dingle...
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  • LYR electric units (category Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
    route to Ormskirk. Lightweight units were built to run on the Liverpool Overhead Railway. The Southport units were replaced in the early 1940s; after regular...
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    on the City and South London Railway, now part of the London Underground Northern line. The Liverpool Overhead Railway followed in 1893, being designed...
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    included the world's first fully electrically powered overhead railway, the Liverpool Overhead Railway. It opened in 1893, predating more famous systems subsequently...
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  • Thumbnail for Liverpool Exchange railway station
    Liverpool Exchange railway station was a railway station located in the city centre of Liverpool, England. Of the four terminal stations in Liverpool's...
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  • Falls of the Zambesi and Sydney Harbour, the Mersey Railway Tunnel and the Liverpool Overhead Railway, and extending the London Underground. He was awarded...
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    The Mersey Railway was the passenger railway connecting the communities of Liverpool, Birkenhead, England. It is currently a part of the Merseyrail network...
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    brothers filmed Liverpool, including what is believed to be the world's first tracking shot, taken from the Liverpool Overhead Railway, the world's first...
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  • Thumbnail for Suburban electrification of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway
    (two routes). The independent Liverpool Overhead Railway (opened 1893-1905 and the world's first overhead electric railway) was connected to this line by...
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  • Thumbnail for George Andrew Hobson
    Mersey Tunnel, the Liverpool Overhead Railway and the extension of the Great Central Railway to London. For the overhead railway, he designed and patented...
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    James Henry Greathead (category British railway civil engineers)
    renowned for his work on the London Underground railways, Winchester Cathedral, and Liverpool overhead railway, as well as being one of the earliest proponents...
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  • Thumbnail for Liverpool James Street railway station
    Liverpool James Street (or simply James Street) is a railway station located in the centre of Liverpool, England; it is situated on the Wirral Line of...
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  • today, the Liverpool Overhead Railway first started ferrying dockers in 1893, ending its life with decreased ridership in 1957. Today, Liverpool is served...
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  • Gladstone Dock was a station on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, between Alexandra Dock and Seaforth Sands. It was opened on 16 June 1930, the final station...
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  • refinery on the east coast of the United Kingdom Liverpool Overhead Railway, a closed Overhead railway in England Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis Lor...
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  • Thumbnail for Liverpool Cathedral
    Liverpool Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Liverpool, England. It is the seat of the bishop of Liverpool and is the mother church...
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  • Thumbnail for Liverpool Central railway station
    Liverpool Central railway station in Liverpool, England, forms a central hub of the Merseyrail network, being on both the Northern Line and the Wirral...
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  • Thumbnail for Seaforth & Litherland railway station
    Seaforth & Litherland, enabling Liverpool Overhead Railway (LOR) trains to run through from Dingle in south Liverpool. Most trains ran through to this...
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  • Thumbnail for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
    the seat of the Archbishop of Liverpool and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool in Liverpool, England. The Grade II* Metropolitan...
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    in 2020 by the Main Stand. The ground is 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool Lime Street railway station. It was proposed in 2002 for the club to relocate to...
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  • Alexandra Dock was a station located on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, west of Regent Road (A565) and within the MDHC Dock Estate. The station was named...
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  • Canada Dock station was on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, situated sixteen feet above street level between Canada Branch Dock No.1 dock to its west and...
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