Lihat sumber Jalur kereta api Liverpool dan Manchester

{{Infobox rail
|railroad_name     = Jalur kereta api Liverpool dan Manchester
|image             = Opening Liverpool and Manchester Railway.jpg
|image_caption     = [[Litograf]] Liverpool and Manchester Railway yang sedang melintasi [[kanal]] Bridgewater di Patricroft, karya A. B. Clayton.
|locale            = [[Lancashire]]
|start_year        = 1830
|end_year          = 1845
|successor_line    = [[Grand Junction Railway]]
|gauge             = [[Sepur standar]]
|length            = 50 km
|hq_city           = [[Liverpool]]
}}
'''Jalur kereta api Liverpool dan Manchester'''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=G6JVAAAAcAAJ ''A History and Description of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway'']. T. Taylor, 1832.</ref><ref>Arthur Freeling. [https://books.google.com/books?id=t8EHAAAAQAAJ ''Freeling's Grand Junction Railway Companion'']. Whittaker, 1838</ref><ref>James Cornish. [https://archive.org/details/grandjunctionan00corngoog ''The Grand Junction, and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Companion: Containing an Account of Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester'']. 1837.</ref> atau dalam [[bahasa Inggris]] dinamakan '''Liverpool and Manchester Railway''' ('''L&MR''') adalah jalur kereta api antarkota pertama di dunia.{{Sfn|BBC|2009}}{{efn-lr|The [[Stockton and Darlington Railway]] opened in 1825, but sections of this line employed [[Cable railway|cable haulage]], and only the coal trains were hauled by locomotives. The [[Canterbury and Whitstable Railway]], opened in May 1830, was also mostly cable hauled. [[Horse|Horse-drawn]] traffic, including passenger services, used the railway upon payment of a toll.}} Jalur kereta api ini dibuka pada 15 September 1830 antara kota [[Lancashire]], [[Liverpool]] dan [[Manchester]] di [[Inggris]].{{Sfn|BBC|2009}} L&MR mencatat beberapa rekor sebagai jalur kereta api pertama di dunia yang: bergantung secara eksklusif pada lokomotif yang digerakkan oleh [[mesin uap]], tanpa terganggu oleh lalu lintas [[kereta kuda]], relnya memiliki [[jalur ganda]], [[persinyalan kereta api|sistem persinyalan]], perjalanan yang [[Jadwal perjalanan|terjadwal]] dan membawa [[surat]].{{sfn|Jarvis|2007|p=20}}

Dirancang dan dibangun oleh [[George Stephenson]], jalur kereta api ini berhasil secara finansial dan memengaruhi pengembangan jalur kereta api di seluruh Inggris pada 1830-an. L&MR kemudian diserap oleh mitra bisnis utamanya, [[Grand Junction Railway]] (GJR) pada 1845 yang digabung dengan [[London and Birmingham Railway]] dan [[Manchester and Birmingham Railway]] pada tahun berikutnya sehingga menjadi [[London and North Western Railway]].{{sfn|Thomas|1980|p=107}}

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