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| | Lime Street Station, present day. |
Liverpool has always been a city of firsts - many of which are to do with the railways: The First passenger railway in the world was opened between Liverpool and Manchester. |  |  | William Huskisson was the First man in the world to be killed by a railway passenger steam engine train at Parkside Station.
His Tomb is situated in the cemetary next to the Anglican Cathedral. | The First station to have iron arcades and to be covered with an overall roof covering the tracks. The roof is still in place today. |  |  | The Post Office First sent letters by rail from Liverpool Lime Street. |
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