Catalogue description Liverpool (Overhead) Electric Railway Company

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Reference: RAIL 778
Title: Liverpool (Overhead) Electric Railway Company
Description:

Plans of the Liverpool (Overhead) Electric Railway Company.

Date: [? 1888-1956]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: LOER
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Liverpool (Overhead) Electric Railway Company, 1888-1956

Physical description: 1 roll(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

Incorporated by act of 24 July 1888 to take over and exercise, by agreement with the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, the powers conferred upon that Board by the Overhead Railway Acts of 1882 and 1887. Line opened for traffic on 6 March 1893. It remained independent until its closure in 1956.

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