The Docker's Umbrella
The Docker’s Umbrella
Some archive pictures of Liverpool’s Overhead Railway that disappeared in 1956. Unfortunately the juddering film effect gets a bit wearing after a while.
On this day in 1987, 37 years ago, the last scheduled train passed over Farnley Viaduct, the tight curvature rendering it unsuitable for the overhead electrification equipment being installed between King's Cross and Leeds.
Some archive pictures of Liverpool’s Overhead Railway that disappeared in 1956. Unfortunately the juddering film effect gets a bit wearing after a while.
Forgotten Relics records and celebrates the UK's disused railway structures, still standing as monuments to the period of ambition, courage and endeavour during which they were built.
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