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Auction: 14016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 430

Liverpool Overhead Railway Company, a group of five certificates comprising; 5% preference shares for £10, 189[3], no. 167, vignette of city under title, scrollwork to left, probate notes attached to reverse; 5% preference shares for £10, 19[23], no.1145, design as previous; 5% preference shares for £10 (1900), 19[04], no.45, design as before but red print, probate notes on reverse; certificate for £10 ordinary shares, 18[94], no.901, ornate title with scrollwork, red on blue paper, 5% preference shares for £10, 19[42], no.1481, vignette of the city under title, all cancelled, fine to very fine. (5)

The company was incorporated on 24th July 1888 and took over the intended work of the earlier Mersey Dock and Harbour Overhead Railway, which was never built. The line was the first electrically powered overhead railway in the world. It was eventually closed in 1957 as it fell outside of the nationalisation scheme of British Railways.

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