Liverpool Overhead Railway

The historic Liverpool Overhead Railway (LOR) has legendary status. LOR was the
world's first elevated electric railway, and operated for 11km along the Liverpool docks.
It was the first system in the world to use:
 Automatic Signaling,
 Electric color light signals, and
 Lightweight electric multiple units.
It boasted one of the first passenger escalators at a railway station, too.
A picture of Seaforth Sands railway station, back in the day
The Overhead railway is a key part of Liverpool’s city history and is a lost hallmark of a global
 ICE-Institute of Civil Engineers

Event on: “Structures Asset Management - investing in railways, webinar”

 Date: 10th May, 2018
 Duration: 1 hour
 Key Speakers:
 1. Kevin Giles (Senior Asset Engineer)
 2. Louise Bungay-Azman (Asset Engineer)
 We have learn from the event:

 Effective Asset Management

 Challenges (Vegetations, Culverts, Storm Damage, Scour, Historic/Unique Structures)
 Unique Difficulties you have to face during structural operation
 Challenge chasing techniques
 The safe run of the train
 Development of future plans
 What is ICE?

 ICE is an Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is a professional membership body

providing unrivalled support to our 92,000 civil engineer members.
 ICE works to share and globalize the expertise, learn more and gain new skills.
 Conferences, seminars and events held where You'll also meet people, influence people
and be admired by people.
 ICE inspiring young people and graduates. ICE encourage them to continue their
professional development by providing a variety of civil engineering knowledge
resources.
 Skill Development

Through attending seminars, conferences, you have developed the following skills:
 The oral communication through talking with good people
 Networking through collaboration with new friends
 Expert Knowledge through the meet up with great minds
 Renewal of motivations through listening their life challenges
 Learning of research-based strategies by the other people with new visions
 Impact on our PDP

 It gave a new vision to explore new technical ways

 Expertise outlook to think on the future plans
 Development of personal and professional skills
 Challenge Tackling
 Proved helpful as it is according to what we need for our plan