Liverpool Overhead Railway

The Liverpool Overhead Railway was the world's first:

• Elevated electric railway.
  

• Designed from the outset electric urban railway - 1893.
  

• Railway to use automatic signalling.
  

• Railway to use electric signal lights.
  

• Railway to use purpose designed light-rail carriages.
  

• Railway to use multiple elecyric units - no locomotive to pull the train.