Category:Liverpool Overhead Railway

**Liverpool Overhead Railway**
	closed elevated metro in Liverpool Надземная железная дорога Ливерпуля, станция Seaforth Sands
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Instance of	transport company; elevated railway;
Location	Liverpool, Merseyside, North West England, England
Date of official opening	6 March 1893;
Date of official closure	30 December 1956;
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date	1957;
Significant event	start of manufacturing (1889); Dingle station train fire;
Length	11 km;
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	Q386424; VIAF ID: 149458951; Library of Congress authority ID: n83222038; Structurae structure ID: 10054215
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The Liverpool Overhead Railway (known locally as the Dockers' Umbrella) in Liverpool, England, opened on February 4 1893. It had first been proposed in 1852, and construction began in 1889. It ran from Seaforth Carriage Shed to Herculaneum Dock, a distance of six miles. It used standard gauge track and there were 14 stations. It was an electric railway from the start, and was the first electrically powered overhead railway in the world. It was designed by engineers Sir Douglas Fox and James Greathead.