Liverpool: World Heritage City

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The world’s first passenger railway line between Liverpool and Manchester, 1830

The world’s first commercial enclosed wet dock, 1715

The goal net, invented by John Brodie, City Engineer and first used at Stanley Park, Liverpool, 1889

The world’s first overhead electric railway, 1893

Construction work on the Mersey Tunnel 12th March 1930

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