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Liverpool Crown Street

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In one corner of the Crown Street site stands this ventilation shaft for Wapping Tunnel. Opened at the same time as the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830, it closed in 1972. It ran for over 2000 m down to Wapping Dock.