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Mon 05 May 2008An Irishman's Diary
ON A RECENT visit to Liverpool, when walking near the famous waterfront, my girlfriend and I stumbled across the remnants of a Liverpool institution, now gone: the Overhead Railway, writes Karl Whitney.
First opened to the public on March 6th, 1893, and known to the waggish locals as "the Docker's Umbrella", the railway ran along the windswept docks of the Mersey until the end of December 1956.
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