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UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 12: View from the Royal Liver Building looking towards the north end of town. The LOR (1893-1956) was the first elevated electric railway in the world, and one of the few to escape nationalisation in 1948. The railway offered tours of the Liverpool Docks and the River Mersey. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 12:  View from the Royal Liver Building looking towards the north end of town. The LOR (1893-1956) was the first elevated electric railway in the world, and one of the few to escape nationalisation in 1948. The railway offered tours of the Liverpool Docks and the River Mersey.  (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)