Liverpool Overhead Railway
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The Liverpool Overhead Railway was an overhead railway in Liverpool, England. It operated along the Liverpool Docks and opened in 1893 with lightweight electric multiple units. The railway had a numbe
Seaforth Sands railway station
Share of the Liverpool Overhead Railway Company, issued on 9 March 1897
A cap badge from the railway
A section of the overhead railway, circa 1911
The City and South London Railway was the first successful deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, and the first major railway to use electric traction. The railway was originally intended
Liverpool Overhead Railway
…home to one of the first passenger escalators at a railway station. It was the second-oldest electric metro in the world, being preceded by the 1890 City and South London Railway. Originally spanning five miles (8 km) from Alexandra Dock to Herculaneum Dock, the railway was extended at both ends over the years of operation, as…
Plaque on Monument to James Henry Greathead
A picture of a City and South London Railway train from The Illustrated London News, 1890
C&SLR locomotive number 13 at the London Transport Museum Depot in 2005
Kennington station, the only one of the original station buildings not replaced or substantially altered