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Residents were forced to evacuate their homes after a former train tunnel collapsed in Liverpool.
Merseyside Police and Fire and Rescue Services were called to the site - built as part of the Liverpool Overhead Railway - on Park Road, Dingle, at 11.30 on Tuesday morning.
The area where it collapsed was being used as a garage on the site of Dingle station.
No-one was injured in the accident.
Police and Fire services are still at the scene as an investigation begins.
Park Road was closed at the Dingle Lane and Keddleston Street junctions as the area was cordoned off, but reopened at 3.30pm.
People who lived in houses in four streets close to the scene were told to leave their homes as there houses were thought to have been built over the tunnel.
All but nine of the houses' residents were later allowed to return home.
