Once a key part of Liverpool's transport system, the Liverpool Overhead Railway was built in 1893 as a response to congestion and increasing traffic on the roads around Liverpool's giant dock.

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Linking Liverpool and Manchester by railway would not be easy; it would take huge amounts of money, a massive labour force, and a brilliant engineer. The engineer was George Stephenson.