ONE of the world's earliest passenger trains, which ran between Manchester and Liverpool, has made its final journey between the cities - by road.
The 170-year-old locomotive, called Lion, ran between the cities on the first passenger railway line.
The train has repeated its famous journey but this time on the back of a lorry along the M62 motorway.
The Lion has been moved from the Museum of Science and Industry, in Manchester, to undergo conservation work in Liverpool.
It will eventually become a star exhibit at the new Museum of Liverpool being built on the city's waterfront.
Nick Forder, transport curator of the Museum of Science and Industry, said: "As Lion is one of the two oldest surviving locomotives to bring passengers, freight and livestock from Liverpool to the site of this museum, it is particularly sad to see it leave."
In 1837 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway company commissioned two luggage locomotives, Lion and Tiger. Lion was in operation for 20 years for passenger and freight transport.
In 1859 Lion was sold to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board to work as a stationary pump. Rediscovered in 1923, Lion was restored to working order for the centenary of the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1930.
Following the celebrations, the loco became something of a film star. appearing in the films Victoria The Great in 1937, The Lady With The Lamp in 1951, and the 1952 Ealing comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt. The world's first passenger railway opened in 1830 between Liverpool and Manchester.