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| rdfs:label | - Liverpool and Manchester Railway
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| rdfs:comment | - The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was the world's first twin-track inter-urban passenger railway in which all the trains were timetabled and ticketed. Trains were hauled by company steam locomotives between the two towns, though private waggons and carriages were allowed. The line opened on 15 September 1830 and ran between the towns of Liverpool and Manchester in North West England in the United Kingdom.
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| railroad name | - Liverpool and Manchester Railway
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| Image caption | - A painting of the inaugural journey of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, by A.B. Clayton.
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| abstract | - The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was the world's first twin-track inter-urban passenger railway in which all the trains were timetabled and ticketed. Trains were hauled by company steam locomotives between the two towns, though private waggons and carriages were allowed. The line opened on 15 September 1830 and ran between the towns of Liverpool and Manchester in North West England in the United Kingdom. Cable hauling of freight trains was down the steeply-graded 1.26-mile Wapping Tunnel to Liverpool Docks from Edge Hill junction. The railway was primarily built to provide faster transport of raw materials and finished goods and passengers between the Port of Liverpool and mills in Manchester and surrounding towns. In 1845, the railway was absorbed by its principal business partner, the Grand Junction Railway (GJR); the following year the GJR formed part of the London and North Western Railway.
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