Named long-distance and high-speed passenger train services, from classic transcontinental named trains through the dedicated high-speed lines that followed. Belongs here: any named intercity or transcontinental passenger rail service, conventional or high-speed. Does not belong here: urban and metropolitan rail transit lines, grouped under urban rail transit lines, or the locomotives and trainsets themselves, tracked as vehicle entities.
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1. Wikipedia: Liverpool and Manchester Railway
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It opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England.
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