Category: Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives
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Further back view of Edge Hill Maintenance Depot
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th March 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Kenn Taylor. Here we again see Edge Hill Maintenance Depot, but from further back, across the road, and thus a better view of what is inside... Read more
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Edge Hill maintenance depot
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th March 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Kenn Taylor. This one shows the Edge Hill Maintenance Depot, which repairs and maintains rolling stock... Read more
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Train entering Manchester II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th March 2012 | 0 Comments
An image from the celebrations of the 175th anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, in 2005. Here we see more of the special train (presumably hauled by the Duke of Gloucester). Here we see a different view than in “Train entering Manchester”, as the train approaches a set of railway signals and travels over a bridge. The camera seems to be on the fourth coach of the train... Read more
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Train entering Manchester
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th March 2012 | 0 Comments
An image from the celebrations of the 175th anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, in 2005. A tender locomotive, presumably the Duke of Gloucester, pulls an enthusiasts’ train into Manchester to mark the occasion: passengers lean out of the windows of the coaches... Read more
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Lord Mayor
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th March 2012 | 0 Comments
An image from the celebrations of the 175th anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, in 2005. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, accompanied by the Lady Mayoress, stands on the platform of an unidentified station, with a coach in the background... Read more
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Duke of Gloucester with coach
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th March 2012 | 0 Comments
An image from the celebrations of the 175th anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, in 2005. The Duke of Gloucester pulls a coach into a station... Read more
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Close-up of Duke of Gloucester
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th March 2012 | 0 Comments
An image from the celebrations of the 175th anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, in 2005. This is a close-up of the Duke of Gloucester... Read more
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Duke of Gloucester
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th March 2012 | 0 Comments
An image from the celebrations of the 175th anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, in 2005. The locomotive seen here is BR Standard Class 8 No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester. The Duke of Gloucester was the prototype (hence it was numbered 71000 rather than 71001) for an intended class of Pacific Class locomotives, designed by Robert Riddles, and was built at Crewe in 1954 as a replacement for Princess Royal Class No. 46202 Princess Anne, scrapped... Read more
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Stations on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 9th March 2012 | 0 Comments
Also donated to Metal by the B&O Railroad Museum (www.borail.org), this shows the stations on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the distance in miles to each one and the train’s expected time of arrival... Read more
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad timetable
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 9th March 2012 | 0 Comments
This is a timetable, dating from 20th May 1830, from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore and Ohio, known as the B&O, was one of the oldest railways in the United States, and linked Baltimore, Maryland to the Ohio River at Wheeling (then in Virginia, now in West Virginia), and was later extended to Parkersburg, also now in West Virginia (West Virginia split off from Virginia in the... Read more
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Margaret Cropper remembers travelling to Lime Street every day for her work
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Margaret Cropper remembers how she would walk to school every day when she lived in Yorkshire, but is unable to remember how she got to Lime Street when she worked there (she received free travel): in particular she wonders how she was able to get there for six o’clock when now she cannot even get up for nine o’clock! Margaret mentions Allerton station, a station (in Garston, not... Read more
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John Marston mentions the other cinemas in the local area
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 17th February 2012 | 0 Comments
John Marston mentions two other local cinemas, besides the Tunnel Road. He refers to the Picture Playhouse on Smithdown Road, which was in a better condition than the Tunny, and was later turned into a bingo place, and later still the Dallas nightclub. He then mentions the Cameo cinema, on the corner of Bird Street and Webster Road, and the infamous double murder that occurred there, but makes several errors... Read more
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First Class Railway Carriage
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. This engraving, apparently in the same series as the previous one, shows a first-class coach on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. This image and the previous one appear to be celebratory postcards issued by the London and North Western Railway, perhaps for the 50th or some other anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester... Read more
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New Station, Lime Street
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
This 1836 engraving, drawn by S Kelper and engraved by J Harris, shows the newly-built Liverpool Lime Street station. At the platform on the left a first-class train waits. Another train can be seen in the background, just in front of the tunnel: whether it is coming or going is unclear, while, in the foreground, a second-class coach stands alone... Read more
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Three classes of passengers
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. Here we see one of the Bury prints, depicting three different scenes: in each scene a locomotive pulls a passenger train: first class in the top picture, second class in the middle, third class at the bottom. The obvious difference is one of comfort: the third-class coaches are little better than trucks, with no protection at all against the elements.... Read more
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Railway Office in black and white
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. Here we see a black and white version of the Bury print depicting the office of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at Crown Street... Read more
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Departure times
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. This bit of paper, issued in January 1831, shows the departure times of passenger trains on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, from both ends, of first- and second-class trains. There are four first class trains - two morning ones, at seven o’clock and 10 o’clock, and two in the afternoon, at one o’clock and half past four - and... Read more
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Gradient Profile of the original Liverpool to Manchester Route
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. This one shows the gradient profile of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Note the steep increases in the Wapping Tunnel and the Whiston Plane, followed by a sharp decrease on the Sutton Plane. There is then a steadier decline to Bury Lane, followed by a steady rise until the end of the line. Bury Lane was one of the original... Read more
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Warehouses Etc. at the end of the Tunnel Towards Wapping III
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. One of the Bury prints, this shows the warehouses at the end of Wapping Tunnel... Read more
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Railway Office, Liverpool IV
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. This Bury print shows the office of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway... Read more
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Site of Moorish Arch today
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. Here we see the former site of the Moorish Arch, now strewn with rubbish and graffiti... Read more
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George Stephenson close-up
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. This is a close-up engraving of George Stephenson... Read more
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Rocket
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. This is the Rocket... Read more
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Cycloped II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. Here we see the Cycloped... Read more
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Perseverance III
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. This one depicts the Perseverance... Read more
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Novelty III
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. This is the Novelty... Read more
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Sans Pareil III
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. This is the Sans Pareil... Read more
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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1829
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 6th February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. This is a map showing the 1829 route not just of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, but also the Bolton and Leigh Railway, the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway and the Warrington and Newton Railway. The Bolton and Leigh Railway, built by George Stephenson, was opened on 1st August 1828 (two years before its more famous neighbour) as a goods line to... Read more
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Tram and buses
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 3rd February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. Here a tram, from the last days of the Liverpool tram service, is seen alongside two green Liverpool Corporation buses, outside the Cunard Building. Although it is billed as “Liverpool’s last tram”, the tram, No. 291, has a different number from the similarly-dubbed vehicle in the image “Liverpool’s last tram” (No. 293). One of the buses has “Penny Lane” displayed... Read more
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Buses on the docks
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 3rd February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. Five buses are present on the docks as huge crowds of people pour in through the landing stage. A small part of the ship from which they had disembarked can be seen on the right of the picture, and on the left you can see a tug... Read more
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Trams on the docks
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 3rd February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. Here no less than 10 trams are visible on the docks: they clearly played a major role in transporting the dockers to and from their workplace. Two ships are sailing on the Mersey estuary, while two more wait to set off, and a tug heads towards port. The landing stage is also visible... Read more
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A crowded coach
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 3rd February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. Here we see a coach packed with passengers of all ages. On the left of the picture we see a distracted-looking little boy, while directly across the aisle from him a young man chats to an older woman. Towards the back we see a rather glum old man, and in the foreground a man looks back, though it is hard... Read more
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Liverpool Overhead Railway
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 3rd February 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. This one shows an electric multiple unit travelling along the Liverpool Overhead Railway. Smoke can be seen rising from the docks: also visible are a signal and the Liver Building... Read more
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Outside Liverpool Central station
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 27th January 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. Here we see the old entrance to Liverpool Central station, the station which lies at the centre of the Merseyrail network. Though smaller and less well known than Lime Street, it is the busiest station in Liverpool, and is located underground on two levels. The original station, which we see here, was an overground terminus, Liverpool Central High Level, opened... Read more
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Near the madding crowd
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 27th January 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. A large crowd of people stands on a platform watching a tender locomotive steam away... Read more
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Lion in action
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 27th January 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. Here we see the Lion pulling three first-class and two second-class coaches at an unknown location... Read more
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Catching a train
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 27th January 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. Here we see passengers about to board a train at an underground station, though the identity of the station, the length of the train and the type of locomotive are unclear... Read more
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Moorish Arch, Looking from the Tunnel II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 27th January 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. This is the Bury print depicting the Moorish Arch... Read more
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Railway Office, Liverpool III
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 27th January 2012 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Ray Physick. Again, we see a Bury print, this one of the office of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company... Read more
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Advanced Passenger Train at Rocket 150
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
Both these photographs show one powercar, numbered 370004 (presumably the other one is numbered 370003) of an Advanced Passenger Train-Prototype set at the Grand Cavalcade... Read more
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High Speed Train at Rocket 150
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see one of the powercars on a High Speed Train featuring at the Grand Cavalcade... Read more
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Evening Star at Rocket 150
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
The Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built by British Rail, makes its appearance at the Grand Cavalcade... Read more
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Flying Scotsman at Rocket 150
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
These two photographs show an impressive-looking Flying Scotsman at the Grand Cavalcade. Surprisingly, there are so few people in place to see such a famous locomotive... Read more
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GWR 3205 at Rocket 150
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see Great Western Railway No. 3205 at the Grand Cavalcade. It is a 0-6-0 tender locomotive belonging to the 2251 Class. This class, designed to pull medium goods trains serving light-laid lines in Wales, but also used for short-haul main-line services and branch-line passenger traffic, was designed by Charles Collett and built between 1930 and 1948: there were 120 of them, numbered 2251-2299, 2200-2250 and 3200-3219. They were withdrawn between 1958 and 1965: No. 3205,... Read more
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Rainhill Trials Photo Album 2
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This is the front cover of volume two of the Rainhill Trials Photo Album... Read more
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The Earl at Rocket 150
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see The Earl, a narrow-gauge locomotive based on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, a heritage railway in Powys. The Railway was opened in 1903, and became part of the Great Western Railway in the 1923 Grouping (and thus, subsequently, the Western Region of British Railways). It closed to passengers in 1931, and completely in 1956, but was reopened by preservationists in 1963. The Earl, built and lanched in 1902, was the Welshpool and... Read more
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Hardwicke and LNWR 1054. at Rocket 150
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
These two photographs show two London and North Western Railway locomotives at the Grand Cavalcade. In the top picture, the Hardwicke hauls three royal coaches originally belonging to the London and North Western Railway, and in the bottom picture we see No. 1054, unattached... Read more
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Sans Pareil at Rocket 150
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
In these two pictures, as the caption says, “the Sans Pareil [more accurately, a replica] gets a shove off the Lion”. The Sans Pareil is here hauling a replica first-class coach... Read more
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Lion pulling replica coach
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The Lion pulls a replica coach at the Grand Cavalcade... Read more
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Lion at Rocket 150
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Here we see the Lion taking part in the Grand Cavalcade... Read more
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Novelty at Rocket 150
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here a replica of the Novelty (again with driver and passengers in Victorian costume) is steamed at the re-enactment of the Rainhill Trials. The caption mentions that it is hauling two replica coaches, but these cannot be seen... Read more
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Rocket pulling replica coach
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here, at the re-enactment of the Rainhill Trials at Rocket 150, the specially-built replica of the Rocket pulls a specially-built replica second-class coach of the type used on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Its driver and passengers are dressed in Victorian costume. The crowd is obviously fascinated, as the number of people taking photographs attests... Read more
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Rocket replica on display
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 1 Comments
This is a replica of the Rocket made by children at Rainhill High School to celebrate Rocket 150 (not the one that took part in the Rainhill Trials re-enactment). It is possible to have one’s photograph taken with it for 20p... Read more
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Rocket replica on display
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a replica of the Rocket made by children at Rainhill High School to celebrate Rocket 150 (not the one that took part in the Rainhill Trials re-enactment). It is possible to have one’s photograph taken with it for 20p... Read more
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Cycloped without horse
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This picture shows a stationary replica of the Cycloped, minus its horse, displayed at Rainhill station. The caption informs us that the Cycloped will not be taking part in the re-enactment of the Rainhill Trials... Read more
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Rocket sign
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
“The sign that says it all”, as the caption so appositely says. This is the sign on platform one at Rainhill station that bears an image of the Rocket, “winner of the locomotive trials at Rainhill October 1829”... Read more
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Rainhill station
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see Rainhill station, where the Trials re-enactment and the Grand Cavalcade took place, looking towards Manchester... Read more
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Rainhill Trials Photo Album 1
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This is the front cover of the first volume of a two-part photo album of the locomotives and rolling stock at Rocket 150... Read more
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Diesel multiple unit waits on the platform at Rainhill
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This unit may well may be the same one as in the previous two, seen from the back as it waits on Rainhill platform one (the Manchester-bound platform)... Read more
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Diesel multiple unit arrives at Rainhill
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
A two-car diesel multiple unit, quite possibly the same one as the previous photograph, arrives at Rainhill station from the Liverpool end, having just passed under the Skew Bridge... Read more
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Diesel multiple unit leaving Rainhill station
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A two-car diesel multiple unit leaves Rainhill station... Read more
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Diesel locomotive at Rainhill station
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A diesel locomotive hauling seven coaches pulls into Rainhill station. Despite this, no one is visible on the platform... Read more
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The Rocket May 1980 page 14
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This page features an advertisement from the Rainhill Trials Celebration Committee, announcing that the preparations for Rocket 150 are nearly complete: it will sell souvenirs to raise funds, and asks for volunteers. It is recommended that spectators buy their tickets from Rainhill Cricket Club and disclosed that the funds raised by Rocket 150 will go towards regenerating the local sports clubs and building three new tennis courts... Read more
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The Rocket May 1980 page 11
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This article, headed, “Smiles on the Trials”, describes the Rocket’s performance at the Rainhill Trials, with a picture of the famous locomotive itself. The article gives a vivid description of how the Rocket was steamed, and notes how it achieved “three times the speed that one of the judges of the competition had declared to be the limit of possibility”: certainly, it went three times faster than the maximum... Read more
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The Rocket May 1980 page eight
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This page describes the Rocket 150 celebrations at St. Ann’s Church in Rainhill, on 24th-26th May, the same days as the main event. Miniature railway rides are one of the attractions on offer... Read more
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The Rocket May 1980 page seven
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This is the first of three pages specifically mentioning the Rocket 150 celebrations at St. Ann’s Church in Rainhill. The drawing shows the Rocket pulling a goods train under the Skew Bridge and into Rainhill station... Read more
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The Rocket May 1980 page five
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On this page, three schoolchildren at Rainhill St. Ann’s Infant School lucky enough to witness Flying Scotsman’s visit recall the experience. One, Andrew Grundy, mentions how he previously saw “the most famous engine in the world” at Steamtown in Carnforth, now the base of the West Coast Railway Company. All three describe their excitement at seeing the iconic locomotive: apparently, it was then followed by a diesel-hauled express... Read more
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The Rocket May 1980 page four
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Page four of The Rocket’s May 1980 edition shows Flying Scotsman visiting Rainhill station on 12th March 1980 for Rocket 150: a coach is visible on the far left of the picture... Read more
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The Rocket May 1980 front page
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The front page of the May 1980 issue of The Rocket... Read more
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The Rocket March 1979 front page
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This is the front page of the March 1979 issue of the The Rocket magazine, with the customary image of its namesake locomotive in the top left-hand corner... Read more
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Rocket 150 invitation
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This is an invitation to a meeting at Rainhill Park School Hall on 21st January 1980 to help arrange Rocket 150. The invitation is open to all residents of Rainhill... Read more
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Rocket 150 route
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 12th December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see the route taken by the locomotives taking part in the Rainhill Trials re-enactment and the Grand Cavalcade. It shows the locations of Rainhill station (but not Lea Green station, which closed in 1958 and did not reopen until 2000), the stands for spectators, the showground and Sherdley Park (where the gala organised by the Parish Council took place)... Read more
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Rocket 150 letter page two
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 12th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This, the second page of BR’s letter, begins by explaining in detail how the stands for the event are to be constructed. It then mentions the shuttle train services to Rainhill, the existing and temporary footpaths, and car permits for spectators arriving by car. It then gives the details of people to be contacted if necessary, and closes with mention of the gala being organised by Rainhill Parish Council... Read more
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Rocket 150 letter page one
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 12th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This is the first page of a letter sent by the London Midland Region of British Rail to spectators at Rocket 150. It begins by briefly mentioning the Rainhill Trials, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the re-enactment of the Trials and the Grand Cavalcade. The letter then explains that a capacity of 46,000 will be provided, in 22 specially-constructed stands, with temporary roadways to allow for construction of the stands and access for... Read more
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Railrover Order Form
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 9th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This is the order form for anyone wishing to take part in a Railrover tour... Read more
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See more of Britain by Railrovers
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This leaflet issued by British Rail in 1976 offers railrover tours of Britain between 1st March and 31st October 1976... Read more
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No. 27 postcard
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 9th December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see South Eastern and Chatham Railway No. 27, pulling three coaches. It belongs to the P-class of locomotives, and was one of eight such 0-6-0T locomotives designed by Harry S Wainwright and built in 1909-10, being launched on 19th February 1910. The first two were numbered 753 and 754: the remainder were numbered 27, 178, 323, 325, 555 and 558, numbers previously used by withdrawn locomotives. The P-class locomotives were built to replace a group of... Read more
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The Rocket February 1979 page two
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Page two completes the story of the building of the Rocket, and mentions other locomotives that were built at the same time in the same workshop. It also mentions the cost of building the famous locomotive: £550. Finally, information on Rocket 150 is provided (though the magazine erroneously refers to “the Centenary” of the Rainhill Trials - it was in fact the 150th anniversary that was celebrated in 1980)... Read more
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The Rocket February 1979 front page
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 9th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This is the front page of the February 1979 issue of The Rocket, the Rainhill parish magazine. It shows a replica of the Rocket, quite possible the same one as used in the Rainhill Trials re-enactment, which is anticipated in the slogan “Rocket mania will soon hit Rainhill”. We are given an introduction to the Rainhill Trials and the participants, and a description of the building of the Rocket (“probably the... Read more
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Model of Rocket
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 9th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a set of instructions on how to build a steam-powered 1/16 scale model of the Rocket... Read more
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Evening Star
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 5th December 2011 | 1 Comments
This illustration from The Rainhill Locomotive Trials shows the appropriately-named BR No. 92220 Evening Star, the last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways. As such it was, uniquely, earmarked for preservation from the outset and was also the 999th locomotive in the BR Standard range. It belongs to Standard Class 9F, a class of 251 2-10-0 locomotives designed by R A Riddles and intended primarily to pull fast and... Read more
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The Rocket at Rainhill
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 5th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This painting, reproduced from The Rainhill Locomotive Trials, shows the Rocket arriving at Rainhill, having just passed under the Skew Bridge. It is hauling three first-class carriages and two second-class ones. The crowds admire it: a young child unwisely stands on the adjacent track... Read more
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The Rainhill Locomotive Trials
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 5th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This is the front cover of a landscape book entitled The Rainhill Locomotive Trials. The Rocket is about to pass under the Skew Bridge to be greeted by the adoring crowds, while behind it we see the Sans Pareil and the Novelty, with far fewer people marvelling at them. This imagery obviously symbolises the Rocket’s victory in the Trials: it streaks far ahead of the other two into history ... Read more
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The Story of Merseyrail
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 5th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This is the front cover of a book dealing with the history of Merseyrail, the train-operating company and commuter network on Merseyside. It operates three lines: the Northern Line, which runs from Hunts Cross to Southport via Liverpool, and also includes services from Liverpool Central to Ormskirk and Kirkby; the Wirral Line, which runs under the Mersey and connects Liverpool with New Brighton, West Kirby, Chester and Ellesmere Port; and... Read more
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Supplement to Special Traffic Notice
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This is a supplement to the Special Traffic Notice, issued by the London Midland Region of British Rail, dealing with Rocket 150. It gives BR employees guidance on the Rainhill Trials re-enactment, the Grand Cavalcade and the shuttle service... Read more
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Advanced Passenger Train-Prototype
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 5th December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see a prototype of the Advanced Passenger Train, an experimental high-speed tilting service developed by British Rail in the 1970s and early 1980s. It was planned as a three stage project: Advanced Passenger Train-Experimental (APT-E), which was completed; Advanced Passenger Train-Prototype (ATP-P), seen here, three of which of which were introduced onto the Glasgow-London route, but service was limited due to bad publicity; and Advanced Passenger Train-Sqaudron (ATP-S),... Read more
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BR Class 56
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 5th December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see a locomotive from British Rail’s Class 56, a class of diesel-electric locomotives designed for pulling heavy goods trains. Their engines were nominally rated at 3520 horsepower, but for rail use they were set at 3250. They marked a significant development in diesel design, with signficantly uprated turbochargers; gear-driven camshafts rather than a timing chain; uprated cylinder heads, fuel pumps and injectors; self-exciting alternators rather than direct current (DC) generators... Read more
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High Speed Train
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 2nd December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see a High Speed Train, another iconic locomotive class. Also known by its brand name InterCity 125, a High Speed Train consists of two Class 43 diesel-electric powercars (a vehicle similar to a locomotive but incapable of being detached from the train and sometimes capable of holding passengers or luggage, as is the case here) at either end of a fixed formation of Mark 3 coaches, usually seven or eight (generally... Read more
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Deltic
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 2nd December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see one of the famous Deltic locomotives pulling a passenger train. At the Grand Cavalcade, the Deltic was represented by No. 55015 Tulyar. Launched on 13th October 1961, the Tulyar (originally numbered D9015, renumbered in February 1974) was named after a racehorse which in 1952 won the Derby, St. Ledger and Eclipse stakes, and was based at Finsbury Park depot (as with other “racehorse Deltics”) until its closure in May 1981. In honour... Read more
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BR Class 47
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 2nd December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see an example of British Rail’s Class 47. This class of diesel-electric locomotives arose from the need for lightweight Type 4 diesels in order to meet the British Transport Commission’s aim of completely eradicating steam by 1968. Such diesels would need to produce at least 2500 brake per horsepower but with an axle load no heavier than 19 long tons, while the BTC was also convinced the future lay with diesel-electrics,... Read more
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Godfrey Davis Rail Drive
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 2nd December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see an example of the Rail Drive scheme devised by Godfrey Davis. The scheme, agreed with British Rail in 1969, allows rail commuters to hire cars... Read more
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BR Class 40
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 2nd December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here a diesel-electric locomotive belonging to British Rail Class 40 pulls a goods train. Their origins lay in the Class D16/1 (the first main-line diesels in Great Britain) and D16/2 prototype diesels ordered by BR, in particular No. 10203 in the latter Class. Initially BR ordered 10 evaluation prototype members of the Class (as part of the first 174 diesel locomotives ordered under the Modernisation Plan), then called English Electric Type 4, to be built... Read more
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BOC tankers
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 2nd December 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see two oxygen tankers belonging to The BOC Group (until 1975, the British Oxygen Company and now part of The Linde Group), while an electric multiple unit passes by in the background. A familiar sight on British Rail in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, their purpose was to deliver oxygen to steelworks when the on-site oxygen-making apparatus was being repaired or maintained, under an arrangement between BOC and British... Read more
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UKF wagon
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 2nd December 2011 | 0 Comments
This image shows a wagon supplied by UK Fertilisers. In 1968, British Rail built a fleet of bogie curtain-sided wagons to carry fertiliser, operated by the British Railway Traffic and Electric Company (BRT) and leased to Shellstar Ltd., the UK Fertilisers branch of the oil company Shell. The curtain sides did not last, as if the load moved they bulged outwards, causing the van to be out of gauge. Therefore, in... Read more
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BR 80079
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 28th November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here is British Railways No. 80079, a member of BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T. They were built because while the London Midland and Western Regions were well served by tank locomotives, which were suited to commuter and secondary services, on the Scottish and Southern Regions, many tank engines predated the 1923 grouping and were well out of date. To rectify this, BR ordered a series of tank locomotives, designed by R... Read more
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Duchess of Hamilton
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 28th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is LMS No. 46229 Duchess of Hamilton, part of the Coronation Class. The Coronation Class was designed by Sir William Stanier and was an enlarged version of his Princess Royal Class. Built in response to the development of the LNER’s A4 Class locomotives, they were the most powerful steam locomotives ever to be built in Britain, estimated at 3300 horsepower: far more powerful than the diesels which replaced them. They... Read more
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Clan Line
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 28th November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here is Southern Railway No. 35028 Clan Line, part of the SR’s Merchant Navy Class, a class of 30 Pacific Class locomotives built by Oliver Bulleid between 1941 and 1949: Clan Line was built in 1948. The Class was named after the Merchant Navy, and each of its locomotives was named after a different Merchant Navy shipping line, many of which used Southampton Docks, then operated by the SR. They resulted from the need... Read more
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Hagley Hall
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 28th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This photograph depicts Great Western Railway No. 4930 Hagley Hall, named after an eighteenth-century manor house in Hagley, Worcestershire. It belongs to the GWR’s 4900 Class, also known as the Hall Class, a class of 259 4-6-0 mixed-traffic steam locomotives built by Charles Collett between 1928 and 1943. They were numbered 4900-4999, 5900-5999 and 6900-6958, and influenced the designs of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway’s Black Five Class and the London... Read more
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Sir Nigel Gresley
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 25th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This image shows London and North Eastern Railway Class A4 No. 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley, named after the famous engineer of the same name. Class A4 consisted of streamlined Pacific Class locomotives, initially built in 1935 by Gresley to pull the Silver Jubilee train from King’s Cross to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. He was inspired by a visit to Germany in 1933, where he had witnessed... Read more
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Flying Scotsman
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 25th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This image shows Flying Scotsman pulling a coach... Read more
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Green Arrow
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 25th November 2011 | 0 Comments
No. 4771 Green Arrow, seen here, belongs to the London and North Eastern Railway’s Class V2, a class of 2-6-2 locomotives built for express mixed-traffic work by Sir Nigel Gresley (the last Gresley locomotives to be built) between 1936 and 1942. They were the only major class of 2-6-2 tender locomotives ever used in Britain: 2-6-2T tank locomotives were common, but there were only three other such tender... Read more
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Princess Elizabeth
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 25th November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here is LMS No. 6201 Princess Elizabeth, part of the Princess Royal Class of locomotives. Built at Crewe and launched on 3rd November 1933, and named after the future Queen Elizabeth II (then just seven years old, granddaughter of the reigning monarch George V), it was the second locomotive in that Class to be built, after No. 6200 Princess Royal, from which the Class took its name. Initially regarded as a poor steamer,... Read more
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Leander
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 25th November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see a photograph of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway’s No. 5690 Leander. The Leander is a 4-6-0 tender locomotive belonging to the LMS’s Jubilee Class, built by William Stanier (later Sir William) primarily for main-line passenger services. 191 of these locomotives, numbered from 5552 to 5742, were built between 1934 and 1936: the Leander was built in March 1936 at Crewe, and named after HMS Leander, which was in turn named... Read more
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LMS 43106
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st November 2011 | 0 Comments
No. 43106 is the only surviving example of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway’s Ivatt Class 4, a class of Mogul locomotives designed by H G Ivatt mainly to haul medium freight but also frequently used to pull passenger trains. 162 were built by the LMS between 1947 and 1952, although only three were built prior to nationalisation in 1948: these three were originally numbered 3000-3002, but were renumbered 43000-43002 by British Railways, in keeping... Read more
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Mogul
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see a 2-6-0 locomotive. The first such locomotives were built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1878-9 as its Class 527, by William Adams. 15 Class 527 locomotives were built, numbered 527-541, the first of them being named Mogul: as a result, this name was used for all 2-6-0 locomotives. Adams’s engines were used to pull coal trains from Peterborough to London, but they proved unsuccessful, as they... Read more
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LMS 53809
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see LMS No. 53809. It belongs to the 7F 2-8-0 class of locomotives built by the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway based at Bath Green Park that were designed to haul heavy coal and goods trains, but also summer Saturday passenger services. The Somerset and Dorset jointly owned, with the Midland Railway, the London and South Western Railway, but the MR was in charge of locomotive policy. The... Read more
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Jinty
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here is a 0-6-0T locomotive belonging to the London, Midland and Scottish Railways Fowler Class 3F, popularly known as the “Jinty”. The Class was based on rebuilds by Henry Fowler of the Midland Railway’s 2441 Class introduced by Samuel Waite Johnson in 1899. Between 1924 and 1931, 422 Jintys were built: originally numbered in two batches, 7100-7149 and 16400-16764 - Nos. 7150-7156 were added when in 1930 the LMS absorbed the locomotives from... Read more
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MR dining cars
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here are two Midland Railway dining cars... Read more
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MR 1000
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st November 2011 | 0 Comments
This photograph is of Midland Railway No. 1000, a member of that railway’s 1000 Class. The Midland Railway was established in 1844 following the merger of the Midland Counties Railway, the North Midland Railway, and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway. It initially connected Leeds station with London St. Pancras via the East Midlands, and was later extended to connect the East Midlands with Birmingham, Bristol, York and Manchester. In 1923, it was... Read more
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LNWR Royal Train carriage
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see one of the two coaches, numbered 800 and 801, built by the London and North Western Railway at Wolverton works in Buckinghamshire in 1903 for the purposes of carrying King Edward VII (No. 800) and Queen Alexandra (No. 801). When the LNWR was taken over by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, the Royal Train coaches retained their LNWR livery and numbering but were repainted with LMS lettering. They remained in service... Read more
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Hardwicke II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st November 2011 | 0 Comments
This image from Rocket 150 - Official Handbook shows the Harwicke... Read more
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LNWR 1054
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st November 2011 | 0 Comments
This image from Rocket 150 - Official Handbook shows London and North Western Railway No. 1054, a 0-6-2T locomotive belonging to the Webb Coal Tank class. The class was introduced by F W Webb in 1881, and got its name because it was a tank equivalent of his 17in Coal Engine design, a class of 0-6-0 tender locomotive used to pull slow goods trains: the Webb Coal Tank locomotives used... Read more
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Lion
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is the start of a series of photographs from Rocket 150 - Official Handbook, detailing the locomotives and rolling stock taking part in the Grand Cavalcade. Here we see the Lion being transported on a truck... Read more
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway mugs
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here are two mugs, taken from an illustration in Rocket 150 - Official Handbook. The mug on the left is entitled “Entrance to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway”, and shows the Moorish Arch and the Wapping Cutting, with two locomotives, one of which resembles the Novelty. In the mug on the right, a Novelty-like engine pulls a carriage resembling a stage coach... Read more
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Work on the Olive Mount Cutting
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 18th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This illustration from the Rocket 150 Official Handbook shows a locomotive pulling three first-class coaches through the Olive Mount Cutting while men are hard at work digging out the Cutting. Another train or a stagecoach can be seen travelling over the bridge just ahead... Read more
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Rocket 150 - Official Handbook
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This is the front cover of the official handbook for Rocket 150. It is illustrated by “Excitement at seeing the Rocket”... Read more
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Ffestiniog Railway
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 18th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is promotional material issued by the famous Ffestiniog Railway, “the world’s oldest independent railway”, it boasts. The leaflet claims a connection with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway: it was built by Thomas Pritchard, one of Robert Stephenson’s men, who was lent to it by Stephenson in 1830, just before the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened: however, Stephenson apparently never expected it would be possible to run a steam... Read more
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Rocket 150 - Official Programme II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 18th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is the second page of the official programme. It starts with a message from Sir Peter Parker, chairman of the British Railways Board welcoming visitors to Rainhill and emphasising the importance of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The event timetable is then listed, and is followed by some information on the Rainhill Trials re-enactment. It is explained that the replicas of the Rocket, the Sans Pareil and the Novelty... Read more
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Newton’s Railways
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 18th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This map, taken from The Liverpool and Manchester Railway - Newton’s Story, shows the railways of Newton-le-Willows: the main lines between Liverpool and Manchester and to Warrington, and the industrial ones to the Sugar Works, to the Coal Shipping Wharf, to the racecourse, to Haydock, to Crown Glass Works, to the coal yard, and to the colliery. We see Newton’s two railway stations: Earlestown and Newton-le-Willows: Earlestown is... Read more
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Route of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 18th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This map, taken from The Liverpool and Manchester Railway - Newton’s Story, shows the route of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Stations still in use are marked with black circles, closed stations with clear circles. The solid line represents the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the dotted line adjacent railway lines, like the service to Warrington. Note that most of the stations closed are on the Manchester side of the... Read more
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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway - Newton’s Story
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This is the front cover of The Liverpool and Manchester Railway - Newton’s Story, a book by Stephen Graves. The illustration shows the Rocket pulling two first-class coaches over the Sankey Viaduct. The book tells the story of railways in the Newton area... Read more
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Rocket caption
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 18th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is the caption to the painting uploaded on this website under the heading “Excitement at seeing the Rocket.” The caption mentions the Skew Bridge and the Rainhill Trials against “three other steam locomotives” (the Novelty, the Sans Pareil and the Perseverance) and “a horse-powered machine” (the Cycloped). It also gives a flavour of the atmosphere at the Trials: “the occasion was treated like a race meeting”. There was a... Read more
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Permanent Way
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This final part of the leaflet calls on us all to give our lives to God, and asserts that just as “Rocket’s builder also laid down L & M’s Permanent Way”, so “Jesus Christ laid down His life to make the new, permanent Way to God”: possibly the first time ever that parallels have been drawn between crucifixion and building a locomotive. We are warned that the alternative... Read more
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Locomotive liturgy
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This extract from the leaflet gives six quotes from the Bible in support of its message. The first extract, from Hebrews 9:27, refers to the Day of Judgement of which we must always be aware; the second, Exodus 20, is the Ten Commandments that we all must follow to get into Heaven; the third excerpt, Matthew 7:21 quotes Jesus as saying that only those who do God’s will can get to Heaven,... Read more
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Rainhill and religion
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Here, the leaflet goes on to explain the alleged religious lessons from the Rainhill Trials. “Many claimed they were trying for the £500 prize but, like the Perseverance, never arrived”, it asserts. This is erroneous: the Perseverance did in fact turn up at the Trials but had been badly damaged along the way, and so was unable to compete until the last day. The leaflet then goes to condemn the Cycloped... Read more
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1829. Grand Competition
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Ilustrated with a drawing of the Rocket, this is the front cover of a folding leaflet that attempts to draw a religious message from the Rainhill Trials... Read more
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View the British Rainhill Trials Spectacular
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This is a poster produced during Rocket 150, offering a view of the Rainhill Trials re-enactment and the Grand Cavalcade from Rainhill Cricket Club Ground, with tickets £7.50 each... Read more
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Schools Exhibition - transport through the ages
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This page from the Schools Exhibition mentions how the schoolchildren of St. Ann’s Church of England Junior School researched different modes of transport through the ages, including canal, road and air transport as well as railways... Read more
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A Railway Spectacular - Other Events
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Finally, the leaflet explains the other events at Rocket 150, in addition to the re-enactment of the Rainhill Trials and the Grand Cavalcade. Events include the openings of the Exhibition of Railway History at Rainhill, and the Visitor Centre and Rail Trail at Edge Hill... Read more
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A Railway Spectacular - Special Trains
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Next the leaflet lists a number of special trains to transport people to Rainhill to see the Rainhill Trials re-enactment Grand Cavalcade, though with advice to change at Liverpool or Manchester, and after changing, passengers must book special shuttle tickets to Rainhill. It also explains how to book... Read more
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A Railway Spectacular - Explainer
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This page from the leaftlet explains what the event is all about, particularly the importance of the Rainhill Trials and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (though it states that only three locomotives took part in the Trials - the Rocket, the Sans Pareil and the Novelty - ignoring the Perseverance and the Cycloped). It explains that, first, replicas of the Trials participants and coaches used on the Liverpool and Manchester... Read more
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A Railway Spectacular - Booking Form
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Here is the booking form for the Rainhill Trials re-enactment and the Grand Cavalcade... Read more
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A Railway Spectacular
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This leaflet was issued to advertise the Rainhill Trials re-enactment and the Grand Cavalcade at the Rocket 150 celebrations in 1980. It is illustrated with a picture of the Rocket, and four other locomotives below: two tender locomotives, the Hardwicke and the Duchess of Hamilton, an electric locomotive, and an Advanced Passenger Train... Read more
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Model Railway Club
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This form asks residents of Rainhill if they would wish to join a Model Railway Club, and allows anyone who is interested to fill in their personal details. At the bottom, a 4-6-2 tender locomotive (minus its tender) pulls an oil tanker, a passenger coach and coal truck... Read more
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Locomotive gauges
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This shows the various rail gauges, both standard and narrow. At the bottom we see an example of the Princess Royal Class, a class of express Pacific Class locomotives built by William Stanier for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and numbered 6200-6212 (46200-46212 after nationalisation). 13 were built at Crewe between 1933 and 1935, though one of those, No. 6202 Turmobotive was a unique locomotive that used turbines instead of cylinders. Rebuilt as... Read more
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Oliver Cromwell
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This article from the Liverpool Echo describes the Oliver Cromwell, Britain’s last express steam locomotive BR Standard Class 7 (also known as the Britannia Class) No. 70013 embarking on a run from Liverpool Lime Street to Llandudno, as part of the Daily Post and Echo’s North Wales Coast Express - the Princess Elizabeth will be the next locomotive to be chosen for this honour. The North Wales Coast Express is... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - locomotive headcodes
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This final extract from the Railway History Map of Britain shows various locomotive headcodes, indicating what type of train was being hauled... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - railway signals
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This extract from the Railway History Map of Britain shows railway signals through the ages. Particularly noteworthy is the semaphore signal (No. 4 in the left-hand diagram): this kind of signal caused the collision at Abbots Ripton in 1876, because the arm was frozen inside the post, which could be mistaken for the signal indicating “line clear”... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - Isle of Man
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This image shows the railways of the Isle of Man... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - Republic of Ireland
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Despite its name, the Railway History Map of Britain also shows the railways in the Republic of Ireland, which appear here. We see two examples of rails: bull-head and flat-bottom. Bull-head rails developed out of double-headed rails, first used in the 1830s on the London and Birmingham Railway, which were reinforced by chairs and where the head and foot of the rail had the same profile. However, the chair caused... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - Northern Ireland
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This extract from Railway History Map of Britain shows the railways of Northern Ireland... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - Wales
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This map shows the railways of Wales. A number of famous railways can be seen here: the Ffestiniog Railway (spelled “Festiniog”, the official name of the railway company, on the map), the Snowdon Mountain Railway, the Talyllyn Railway and the Vale of Reidhol Railway. The Ffestiniog Railway is a narrow-gauge heritage railway in Gwynedd, located mainly in the Snowdonia National Park. It is the oldest surviving railway company in the... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - South West
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This extract from the Railway History Map of Britain shows the railways in the South West of England. Catch-me-who-can can be seen here, as well as the Pen-y-Darren locomotive, built by Trevithick in 1802 (not 1804, as the map says), six years before Catch-me-who-can. Trevithick built a high-pressure fixed steam engine to drive a hammer at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil: with the assistance of a Pen-y-Darren employee, Rees Jones, he... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - South East
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Here we see the railways of the South East of England. Pancras and King’s Cross stations are visible, as is the Bluebell Railway... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - East Anglia
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Here are the railways of East Anglia... Read more
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Railway History Map of the Britain - the Midlands
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This extract shows the railways of the Midlands... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - Lancashire and Yorkshire
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Here we see the railways of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The Rocket, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the National Railway Museum and somersault signals all appear in this extract. In somersault signals, the pivot of the arm of the signal was in the centre, and the arm was independent of the post: thus, in the off position (i.e. the indication that it was safe to pass), the arm would clearly... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - North East and Cumbria
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This section of the map shows the railways of the North East of England and Cumbria. Visible are the front lamp for royal trains, Wylam Dilly (Puffing Billy’s sister locomotive), the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. Along with Puffing Billy, Wylam Dilly was built for use in the Wylam Colliery, shortly after its more famous counterpart (until a thorough examination was carried out in 2008,... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - northern Scotland
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Here we see the railways of northern Scotland. Visible here is a locomotive from the Highland Railway. The Highland Railway opened in 1865 following the amalgamation of four smaller railways: it later absorbed a number of other lines. Based in Inverness, it connected with the Caledonian Railway to the south and the Great North of Scotland Railway to the east. There were also several branch lines connecting it to nearby towns.... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain - southern Scotland
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This map shows the railways of southern Scotland. Landmarks that appear here include the Forth Bridge and the Scottish Railway Preservation Society Museum in Falkirk... Read more
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Railway History Map of Britain
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This is the front cover of a map depicting the various railways that have existed in Britain and Ireland... Read more
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Britain’s Railways Under Steam
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This is the front cover of a book by J B Snell, Britain’s Railways Under Steam. As the title suggests, it deals with the period in the history of rail transport in Britain when steam locomotives reigned supreme. It is illustrated with a tender locomotive, No. 34022, pulling a passenger train out from under a bridge. The front coach appears to be numbered 294... Read more
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Stephenson House
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This is the last of a series of pieces of paper commemorating the entrants at the Rainhill Trials. This one concerns the victorious Rocket. In addition, it describes George Stephenson’s work in building the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and gives a summary of the Trials themselves, including an explanation as to why there is no entry for the Cycloped - it was not serious competitor... Read more
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Braithwaite Suite
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This is one of a set of pieces of paper dealing with the competitors in the Rainhill Trials. This one, like the previous entry, concerns the Novelty. The Novelty gains two entries because it had two designers, but it would surely have been more logical to have just one, labelled “Ericsson and Braithwaite Suite”, rather than separate “Ericsson Suite” and “Braithwaite Suite” entries... Read more
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Ericsson Suite
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This is one of a set of pieces of paper dealing with the competitors in the Rainhill Trials. This one concerns the Novelty... Read more
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Hackworth Suite
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This is one of a set of pieces of paper dealing with the competitors in the Rainhill Trials. The one concerns the Sans Pareil... Read more
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Burstall Suite
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This is one of a set of pieces of paper commemorating the competitors in the Rainhill Trials. This one deals with the Perseverance... Read more
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Lakeside Miniature Railway
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Here, in Fifteen Inches Between the Tracks, we see the King George V locomotive pull a train on the Lakeside Miniature Railway in Southport. The line opened on 25th May 1911. It runs alongside the Marine Lake on the sea front at Southport, and was originally called Llewellyn’s Miniature Railway, after G V Llewellyn, its builder and original operator. It is the oldest continuously running minimum-gauge railway in the world:... Read more
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Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway No. 11
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This photograph, taken from Fifteen Inches Between the Tracks, shows Bonnie Dundee, the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway’s No. 11, a tank locomotive that was built in 1900 by Kerr Stuart for Dundee gasworks, before being bought by Ian Fraser about 1960 and donated to the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in 1976. Originally a 0-4-0WT engine, the Bonnie Dundee was rebuilt in 1982 as a 0-4-2T. In 1996, it was rebuilt with... Read more
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Fifteen Inches Between the Tracks
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This is the front page of Fifteen Inches Between the Tracks: Miniature Railways - A Guide to Sources, a pamphlet on the minimum-gauge railways of Britain. A tender locomotive on a turntable is on the cover... Read more
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Liverpool to Manchester Northern Route
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This map shows the Northern Route between Liverpool and Manchester, the same route as the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway... Read more
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Jupiter at Parkside
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Here a locomotive, possibly the Jupiter (judging by the rather fuzzy nameplate on its boiler), pulling a first-class coach, stops at Parkside to take in water. This is also taken from The Iron Road... Read more
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Caledonian
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This contemporary drawing, reproduced in The Iron Road, shows the Caledonian, a 0-4-0 locomotive built for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1832 by Galloway, Bowman and Glasgow of Manchester’s Caledonian Foundry. Here it pulls a first-class coach. Numbered 28, it showed a tendency to derail, and on 28th February 1835, it was involved in a fatal collision with the Star, another locomotive. It was then used as a ballast engine... Read more
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Cycloped in The Iron Road
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This drawing in The Iron Road depicts the Cycloped... Read more
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Rocket then and now
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This picture from The Iron Road shows the Rocket on display in the Science Museum, while the inset shows the engine in its original form: the most notable difference is the present-day Rocket lacks its tender... Read more
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Heritage Rail Trail
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This is the front page of a pamphlet produced by Visit St. Helens, promoting the Heritage Rail Trail. This is a bus tour, going since 1999, taking people to visit 10 historic sites in the St. Helens area connected with the Liverpool and Manchester and Warrington and Newton Railways, including the Locomotive Trials Exhibition at Rainhill Library, the Sankey Viaduct and the Huskisson Memorial at Parkside. The image here shows a diesel... Read more
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Class A1 Flying Scotsman back
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This is the back page of the leaflet featured in the previous image. It gives more information on Pacific Class locomotives, as well as a brief resume of Flying Scotsman’s career, and a diagram of the locomotive itself... Read more
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Class A1 Flying Scotsman front
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This is the front page of a leaftlet issued by Locomotives of the World, referring to one of the most famous of all locomotives, Flying Scotsman: the page nostalgically describes the engine as “a representative locomotive of the good old days when steam locomotives were still the kings of overland transportation”. A Pacific Class, described as “The nation’s favourite loco” by the National Railway Museum, it was built in 1922... Read more
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The Rocket on Show
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Here we see the replica of the Rocket on display during the Rocket 150 celebrations, attached to a replica second-class coach... Read more
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Steam in Britain - Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man
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This extract from the Steam in Britain map shows the locations of steam railways in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man... Read more
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Steam in Britain - southern England
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This extract from the Steam in Britain map shows the locations of steam railways in southern England. Number 39 on this map is the Bluebell Railway in Sussex, another well-known heritage line. Apart from the National Railway Museum, the Bluebell Railway owns more steam locomotives - more than 30 - than any other organisation in Britain. It was reopened on 7th August 1960, the world’s first standard-gauge steam-operated railway to run a... Read more
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Steam in Britain - northern England
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This extract from the Steam in Britain map shows the locations of steam railways in the north of England. Number 7 on the map is the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, a minimum-gauge railway that was preserved in 1960, and attracts many visitors. Like the Talyllyn Railway, it features in The Railway Series, as the Arlesdale Railway (also known as the Small Railway): the Reverend W Awdry was inspired by a holiday that... Read more
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Steam in Britain - Wales
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This extract from the Steam in Britain map shows the locations of steam railways in Wales. Wales is home to arguably Britain’s most famous heritage railway - the Talyllyn Railway - the first heritage railway in the world. It is number 20 on this map. A narrow-gauge railway, it has become a major tourist attraction since preservation in 1951. It is the inspiration for the Skarloey Railway, a fictional narrow-gauge railway... Read more
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Steam in Britain - Scotland
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This extract from the Steam in Britain map shows the locations of steam railways in Scotland... Read more
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Steam in Britain II
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This is from the inside cover of “Steam in Britain”, giving an introduction to the topic. It explains that the map was issued to commemorate the 150 anniversary in 1975 of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which was celebrated with a Steam Calvacade, involving 34 locomotives, on 31st August. It explains that the first heritage railway to be set up was the Talyllyn Railway in 1951, and other such railways (some... Read more
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Steam in Britain
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This is the front cover of a map which details the heritage railways and museums in Britain where steam locomotives remain in active service... Read more
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Stockton and Darlington Railway locomotives
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This page from Locomotives of the World shows two locomotives used on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The Stockton and Darlington opened on 27th September 1825, and was the world’s first railway. It connected Witton Park and Stockton-on-Tees via Darlington, and connected to collieries near Shildon. Its purpose was to carry coal from inland collieries to Stockton, where it would be loaded onto ships. Originally, it was intended to use... Read more
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Locomotives of the World
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The front cover of a book entitled Locomotives of the World - Magic on Rails, illustrated with a tender locomotive pulling a passenger train... Read more
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Build Your Own Stephenson’s Rocket
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This is a children’s activity book allowing them to build their own model of Stephenson’s Rocket... Read more
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AC Electrified Lines
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This Guard’s Manual, issued by the London Midland Region (which included the North West) of British Railways in 1964, deals with the process of electrification, undertaken under the terms of the Modernisation Plan. It addresses the alternating current (AC) method of electrification that BR eventually settled on, in relation both to electric multiple units and to trains pulled by electric locomotives. Initially, direct current (DC) had been used on the... Read more
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Dieselisation
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This page, taken from the 1957 edition of Facts and Figures about British Railways, gives information of the progress of dieselisation in accordance with the 1955 Modernisation Plan. It mentions how a few inter-city diesel services have already been introduced, with more to follow. Furthermore, diesel railbuses (lightweight railcars similar in appearance and design to a bus) will be experimented with in rural areas: however, these ultimately proved unreliable and were withdrawn... Read more
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Progress of Modernisation Plan
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This double-spread, again taken from the 1957 issue of Facts and Figures about British Railways, begins with a table showing the “Total Tractive Stock” of Britain’s railways since 1938. Note the steady fall in the number of steam locomotives and the dramatic rise in diesel and electric locomotives from 1952 onwards. On the right, we have a chart showing the dramatic expansion of diesel traction at the end of each four-week period... Read more
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Electrification
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This double-page spread from the 1957 edition of Facts and Figures about British Railways talks in detail about the electrification process as part of the Modernisation Plan. It mentions many specific lines to be electrified, including the Liverpool to Manchester line, lists statistics relating to already-existing electrified lines and relates how the alternating current (AC) system has been settled on as the specific method of electrification. The illustration shows an electric... Read more
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Dieselisation and electrification
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This double-page spread from the 1957 edition of Facts and Figures about British Railways gives information on the progress of the 1955 Modernisation Plan, which led to the complete replacement of steam by diesel and electric traction by 1968. This pamphlet was, of course, published when the Plan was still in its early stages, hence its acknowledgement that “meanwhile - and probably for some years to come - the steam locomotive will continue... Read more
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The Rocket of Mr. Robert Stephenson of Newcastle
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One of a series of postcards commemorating the locomotives that took part in the Rainhill Trials. Here we see the winner of the Trials, the Rocket, designed by Robert Stephenson... Read more
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The Perseverance of Mr. Burstall of Edinburgh
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One of a series of postcards commemorating the locomotives that took part in the Rainhill Trials. This one depicts the Perseverance, designed by Timothy Burstall... Read more
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The Novelty of Messrs. Braithwaite and Ericsson of London
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This is one of a series of postcards commemorating the locomotives that took part in the Rainhill Trials. Here we see the Novelty, designed by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson... Read more
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The Sans Pareil of Mr. Hackworth of Darlington
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This is one of a series of postcards commemorating the locomotives that took part in the Rainhill Trials. This one depicts the Sans Pareil, designed by Timothy Hackworth... Read more
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Merseyside stations network
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This map, taken from Merseyside and District Railway Stations, shows all the railway stations of Merseyside. If you look closely, you can see Edge Hill is roughly in the centre of the map... Read more
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Merseyside and District Railway Stations
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This is the front cover of a book entitled Merseyside and District Railway Stations, which, as the title suggests, is about the railway stations of Merseyside. A tank locomotive pulls a passenger train out of a station, while on the far left of the picture, a diesel locomotive does the same... Read more
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Unemployed horses
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This cartoon, found in The Rainhill Story, shows a group of horses lamenting the fact that they are now unemployed following the success of the steam locomotive, one of which can be seen in the background... Read more
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Killingworth Colliery locomotive
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This illustration from The Rainhill Story shows a typical locomotive in use at the Killingworth Colliery. In 1803, the 22-year-old George Stephenson was appointed as the Colliery’s superintendant engineer: in 1813, he assumed responsibility for all collieries owned by the Grand Alliance (a company comprising all major mines in County Durham). Stephenson, inspired by the success of Puffing Billy at Wylam Colliery, persuaded Sir Thomas Liddle (later Lord Ravensworth), the owner... Read more
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Puffing Billy
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This photograph, taken from The Rainhill Story, depicts Puffing Billy, the oldest surviving steam locomotive in the world. It was built in 1813-14 for Christopher Blackett, the owner of the Wylam Colliery, by William Hedley, Jonathan Forster and Timothy Hackworth (who would later build the Sans Pareil). Puffing Billy was the world’s first commercial adhesion steam locomotive (that is, where power is achieved by driving the wheels to create... Read more
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Catch-me-who-can
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Catch-me-who-can was the rather provocative name of the world’s first steam locomotive to successfully run on rails. It was invented by the Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick. Trevithick had invented three previous locomotives, Puffing Devil (1801, the first example of steam-powered transport), the London Steam Carriage (1803), and the Pen-y-Darren locomotive (1804), but these all ran on roads: additionally, the Coalbrookdale company had built a railway locomotive for Trevithick but it is not... Read more
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The Marks System
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This booklet was issued in 1954 by the National Union of Railwaymen on the marks system of classifying signal boxes... Read more
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Red Rose II
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This is the reverse of the leaflet featured in “Red Rose”. It talks about the coaches that the locomotive pulls... Read more
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Red Rose
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This leaflet shows the Red Rose, a Pacific Class locomotive, pulling a special train for the Festival of Britain in 1951.... Read more
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Route of Liverpool Overhead Railway - north
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Here is the northern half of the route of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, taken from the book The Dockers’ Umbrella, stretching from Brocklebank Dock to Pier Head... Read more
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Route of Liverpool Overhead Railway - south
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This is one half of a map contained in the book The Docker’s Umbrella. This shows the southern half of the route of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, from Dingle to James Street, near the Three Graces... Read more
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The Docker’s Umbrella - A History of Liverpool Overhead Railway
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This is the front cover of a book called The Docker’s Umbrella - A History of Liverpool Overhead Railway. The Liverpool Overhead Railway was built to alleviate congestion from road traffic and numerous railway crossings on the Dock Road: passenger traffic needed to be isolated from cargo routes. The Liverpool Overhead Railway Company was formed in 1888, construction began in October 1889, the line was opened on 4th February 1893, and public... Read more
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Wapping Tunnel and Park Lane goods yard 1974
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This 1974 photograph shows the now-overgrown Wapping Tunnel and Park Lane goods yard. As with the Chatsworth Street Cutting, the Moorish Arch site and Edge Hill station (prior to its renovation by Metal), this is yet another example of the decay of Liverpool’s railway heritage... Read more
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Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway V
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see part of Thomas Talbot Bury’s “Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway”... Read more
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Rear view of Sans Pareil in Science Museum
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we get a rear view of the Sans Pareil in the Science Museum, confirming the impression that it no longer has a tender. As with the Rocket, we can see a waxwork driver standing on the footplate. This 1978 photograph is much better in focus than the previous one... Read more
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Sans Pareil at Science Museum
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This out-of-focus photograph, taken in 1978, depicts the Sans Pareil in the Science Museum, the same place which houses the Rocket. Note that, like the Rocket, the Sans Pareil appears to have lost both its paint and its tender... Read more
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Sans Pareil and Novelty at Rainhill Trials
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This painting, apparently executed for Rocket 150 by the same artist as “Rocket and Skew Bridge” and “Excitement at seeing the Rocket”, shows the Sans Pareil and the Novelty at the Rainhill Trials: the latter bears a flag with its name on. The Rocket is ahead of them both, about to pass under the Skew Bridge: this symbolises its victory over... Read more
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Sankey Viaduct based on Bury print II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is a darker version of the previous image... Read more
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Sankey Viaduct based on Bury print
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This painting, inspired by Bury’s print, shows a locomotive pulling a train across the Sankey Viaduct in its heyday, and a number of sailing ships on the canal... Read more
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Sankey Viaduct and lock
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This 1974 photograph shows the Sankey Viaduct and the lock from the canal which once flowed under it. The disappearance of the canal, the derelict building in front of the Viaduct, and the lack of smoke from the chimney in the background are emblematic of the end of the industrial age... Read more
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Sankey Viaduct 1977
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is a 1977 view of the Sankey Viaduct... Read more
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Sketch of the Carriages on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This sketch, based on the earlier painting by Thomas Talbot Bury, was drawn by Henry Auden in March 1832, and shows typical examples of the rolling stock on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The top half, concerned with passenger services, shows the Planet pulling one second-class coach, two first-class coaches, one mail coach and one truck containing a horse-drawn carriage. The... Read more
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway rolling stock II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. One of the Bury prints, but not the same picture as in “Liverpool and Manchester Railway rolling stock”. The top part of this picture shows the Northumbrian pulling a first class and mail train, though only the former coaches are visible. Below it, the Jupiter pulls a second-class passenger train... Read more
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Rear view of Rocket in Science Museum
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see the rear view of the Rocket on display in the Science Museum. We can see the waxwork driver model... Read more
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Rocket at Science Museum
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This 1978 shows the original Rocket in the Science Museum in London, where it remains to this day. A waxwork model of a driver can be seen. Note how the Rocket has lost its original yellow livery and is displayed without its tender... Read more
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Excitement at seeing the Rocket
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. In this painting, set in the Rainhill Trials and painted for Rocket 150, the Rocket has passed under the Skew Bridge and has caused a great deal of excitement among the spectators. A man runs along the track adjacent to the engine (note how the sleepers are triangular and do not join, unlike today’s rectangular versions). On the left of... Read more
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Rocket and Skew Bridge
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This painting, executed for Rocket 150, shows the Rocket pulling a passenger train of three first-class coaches and two second-class coaches under the Skew Bridge at the Rainhill Trials... Read more
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Whiston Incline display
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is another Rocket 150 display in Rainhill Primary School. A locomotive resembling the Northumbrian pulls a train up the Whiston Incline. The train consists of five first-class passenger coaches and a mail coach... Read more
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Rainhill schools exhibition
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 4th November 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see an exibition in Rainhill St. Ann’s Church of England Primary School, celebrating Rocket 150. A model and several images of the Rocket are visible, as are an image on the left which may represent the Lion, models of steam, diesel and electric locomotives, and the British Rail logo... Read more
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Rainhill exhibition
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 31st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This model was made by schoolchildren at Rainhill St. Ann’s Church of England Primary School in 1979 to mark Rocket 150. It shows Rainhill at the time of the famous locomotive trials (note how rural the area appears, with only a small settled area) and depicts the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with the Rocket running it... Read more
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Port of Liverpool
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 31st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see the Port of Liverpool in the early nineteenth century. It looks busy, testament to Liverpool’s importance at the time. The Port extends seven and a half miles along the Liverpool bank of the Mersey from Brunswick to Seaforth, and consists of a series of docks, interconnected by lock gates. The Port was crucially important in facilitating... Read more
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Newton station
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 31st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. In this 1832 painting two steam locomotives pulling passenger trains pass each other through Newton station. The locomotive on the left pulls only first-class coaches, but the one on the right hauls at least one second-class coach. This cannot be the current Newton-le-Willows station, which did not open until 1861: presumably, then, it is Earlestown, which was called Newton Junction when first... Read more
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Moorish arch based on Bury print II
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One of the inages donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. A more in-focus version of the previous image... Read more
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Moorish Arch based on Bury print
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see a drawing of the Moorish Arch, based on Thomas Talbot Bury’s print. However, the artist here lacks the colourful style that gives Bury’s paintings their appeal... Read more
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Darker drawing of Moorish Arch area
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here is a darker version of the area near the Moorish Arch... Read more
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Drawing of Moorish Arch area
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One of the inages donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This drawing presents a view from the Moorish Arch into the Edge Hill Cutting... Read more
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Liverpool Road frontage 1983
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One of the inages donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This 1983 photograph shows the frontage of Liverpool Road... Read more
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Lion at Southport
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One of the inages donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This photograph, also dating from Rocket 150, shows the Lion at Southport. Just on the right of the picture, you can see a replica second-class coach... Read more
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Lion with first and second class coaches
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 31st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here the Lion pulls a second- and a first-class coach at Rocket 150. The Lion was built in Leeds in 1838 by Messrs. Todd, Kitson and Laird (later called simply Kitsons) for use on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Together with its sister locomotive, the Tiger, it was one of two locomotives ordered by the Liverpool and Manchester to pull goods trains,... Read more
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Level crossing
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One of the inages donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This drawing depicts a level crossing: its location is unclear... Read more
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Goods train on Irwell Bridge
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 31st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. In this 1978 photograph, a goods train passes over the Irwell Bridge: signals are visible. The Irwell River has now been completely tarmacked over... Read more
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Close-up of Irwell Bridge
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see a close-up of the Irwell Bridge. As you can see, it has now been blocked off completely... Read more
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View on the Intersection Bridge on the Line of the St. Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. A lighter version of S G Hughes’s painting of the Intersection Bridge... Read more
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Close-up of Huskisson memorial
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 31st October 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see a close-up of the memorial plaque dedicated to William Huskisson. Note the fulsome tone: “the pride of his talents”, “an illustrious statesman”, Liverpool’s “most honoured representative”: a far cry from most similar memorials today, which simply give the personal details of the deceased as well as a brief message of condolence... Read more
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Excavating rails
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 31st October 2011 | 0 Comments
Eric Shenton. The caption to this photograph, possibly from a newspaper, describes how on 13th April 1956 workmen at the former Crown Street station, by then a goods yard, accidentally excavated some rails that “perhaps, once carried the Rocket, 125 years earlier”. In fact, neither the Rocket nor any other locomotive would have been carried on those rails, at least not while Crown Street was used as a passenger station, as the... Read more
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Diesel multiple unit at Astley
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 31st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This 1978 photograph shows a diesel multiple unit, composed of five coaches, passing through the defunct Astley station. Astley, located in Astley Green near Wigan, was opened under the name Flow Moss Cottage in the mid-1840s by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway - it is not known when it changed its name. It was located on the west side of... Read more
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Chatsworth Street Cutting seen from Edge Hill
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One of the inages donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. In this 1982 photograph we get a view of the Chatsworth Street Cutting from platform four of Edge Hill. A diesel locomotive can be seen on the left of the picture... Read more
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Crown Street goods tunnel 1978
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is a 1978 photograph of the Crown Street goods tunnel... Read more
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Steps in Chatsworth Street Cutting
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This 1978 image gives a sideways-on view of the steps leading into Chatsworth Street Cutting... Read more
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Chatsworth Street Cutting walls
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This photograph, taken in 1978, shows the walls of the Chatsworth Street Cutting... Read more
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View from tunnel of Chatsworth Street Cutting
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we can see the Chatsworth Street Cutting from the tunnel. The disused steps and graffiti can be seen, as in the Moorish Arch site images, since the Arch was located here... Read more
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Excavations at Chatsworth Street Cutting
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see the excavations of the Chatsworth Street Cutting between 1976 and 1979. These excavations uncovered the northern engine house and the rope haulage machinery system, both of which were used by the fixed winding engines that pulled locomotives from the Wapping Dock to Edge Hill. They revealed that the walls of the engine house were demolished into the cellar, from... Read more
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Chatsworth Street Cutting 1978
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This 1978 photograph of Chatsworth Street Cutting provides a stark contrast with the one just a year previously. The tunnel is now blocked off entirely, with no possibility of a train passing through it... Read more
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Chatsworth Street Cutting 1977
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This 1977 photograph depicts the Chatsworth Cutting, which connects to the main line north of Edge Hill. A goods train can be seen passing though... Read more
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Liverpool Road street facade II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Again, we see the boarded up buildings on the Liverpool Road street facade... Read more
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Liverpool Road street facade
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see the street facade near Liverpool Road station. The buildings are boarded up, inevitably bringing eerie reminders of Edge Hill... Read more
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Liverpool Road warehouses and departure shed II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we again see the Liverpool Road warehouses and departure shed... Read more
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Liverpool Road warehouses and departure shed
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here, from the opposite angle, we see the warehouses at Liverpool Road and, at the far end of the picture, the departure shed. Presumably, it would be from the departure shed that the locomotives would emerge to begin their journey towards Liverpool... Read more
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Liverpool Road warehouses
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see what were once the warehouses at Liverpool Road station. Just four years (from 1979, when this photograph was taken) after they were closed, they are in comparatively good condition... Read more
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Entering Liverpool Road II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Again, we see the entrance to Liverpool Road... Read more
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Entering Liverpool Road
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 31st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is the entrance to the defunct railway station at Liverpool Road in Manchester. Presumably, the parapets represent the bridge over which locomotives would initially travel to and from the station. As you can see, the tracks have been left in place, presumably to give a feel of what it would have been like in the old days... Read more
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Station master’s house at Liverpool Road
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see the now-boarded-up station master’s house at the defuct Liverpool Road station in Manchester. The gloomy weather seems to be a symbol of a lost station... Read more
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Irwell Bridge II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. An out-of-focus view of the Irwell Bridge... Read more
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Irwell Bridge
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 31st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see the bridge over the River Irwell, between Manchester and Salford. This bridge was important to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway: the original plan was that the Railway would terminate at Salford, but in 1829 a deviation was approved to allow it to cross the Irwell so it could terminate at Liverpool Road in Manchester. 53 feet wide, the Bridge... Read more
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Duke’s Bridge II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. A lighter view of the Duke Bridge... Read more
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Duke’s Bridge
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see the Duke’s Bridge. It is instantly noticeable how polluted the water is... Read more
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Winton Skew Bridge
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see the Skew Bridge at Winton (not to be confused with its Rainhill counterpart), near Eccles... Read more
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Diesel multiple unit at Chat Moss
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This 1979 photograph shows a diesel multiple unit travelling over Chat Moss... Read more
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Kenyon Cutting
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 28th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here is the cutting for the now-defuct Kenyon Junction station. The station, on both the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Bolton and Leigh Railway, opened as Bolton Junction in 1831 and changed its name in 1843. It was rebuilt in 1883 in response to criticisms of its poor facilities and missed connections. It closed to passengers on 2nd January 1961 and entirely on ... Read more
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Huskisson memorial without train
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is a clearer view of the Huskisson memorial, both for the absence of a train and for being a close-up shot. The marble memorial stands in stark contrast to its brick surroundings... Read more
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Memorial to William Huskisson
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. In this photograph, taken in 1979, a diesel locomotive pulls a passenger train past the memorial to William Huskisson. The memorial is situated on the site of the long-since demolished Parkside station, where Huskisson was killed... Read more
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Newton bridge - out of focus
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. An out-of-focus view of the Newton bridge... Read more
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Newton bridge
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here is the Newton bridge, under which is the entrance to Newton-le-Willows station... Read more
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Park Road bridge II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. A lighter view of the Park Road bridge at Newton-le-Willows... Read more
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Park Road bridge
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is the bridge over Park Road in Newton-le-Willows... Read more
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Earlestown station waiting room
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This 1979 photograph shows the waiting room at Earlestown station... Read more
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Earlestown station
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is a 1979 photograph of Earlestown station, another of the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway stations, called Newton Junction when founded. In July 1852, it became Warrington Junction, then Earlestown Juction (gaining its name from James Hardman Earle, a director of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway) in November 1861, assuming its present appelation on 5th June 1950. With the opening of the Warrington... Read more
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More focus on Sankey Viaduct 1979
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is a more in-focus view of the Sankey Viaduct in 1979... Read more
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Close-up of Sankey Viaduct 1979
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is close-up view of the Sankey Viaduct as it appeared in 1979... Read more
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Train travelling over Sankey Viaduct
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Despite the neglect it has fallen into, the Sankey Viaduct is still being used, as here we see a diesel locomotive pulling a train of at least eight coaches over it. This may well be an express train, given the large number of coaches... Read more
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Sankey Viaduct 1979
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see the Sankey Viaduct as it appeared in 1979. Like Edge Hill and the Moorish Arch site but unlike Rainhill, it has fallen into neglect: it is badly in need of new paint and the area surrounding it is overgrown. In the background we see a factory that has fallen silent: a reminder of how the industrial society that... Read more
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Rainhill station looking east
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This photograph, taken in 1979, also shows Rainhill station, but unlike the previous ones, looks east, away from the Skew Bridge. A shelter can be seen on the left-hand platform, and the station has two bridges to allow passengers to move from one platform to the other. Notice also how much better-kept Rainhill is compared to Edge Hill and surrounding landmarks ... Read more
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Rainhill Trials sign
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This 1979 photograph shows a sign commemorating the Rainhill Trials and depicting the Rocket. The rather battered and bruised appearance of the sign implies that it has been existence for some years before the picture was taken... Read more
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Datestone on Skew Bridge
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This 1979 photograph gives us a close-up of the datestone on the Rainhill Skew Bridge, crediting Charles Lawrence as chairman and George Stephenson as engineer... Read more
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Skew Bridge 1979 close-up
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is a close-up view of the Rainhill Skew Bridge in 1979. Another bridge is visible in the background... Read more
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Skew Bridge 1979
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is a 1979 view of the Skew Bridge and Rainhill station. When the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened in 1830, Rainhill was served by a station called Kendrick’s Cross, which had been the setting for the Rainhill Trials the previous year. It was rebuilt under its present name and on the present site (west of the previous one) in 1870, the... Read more
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Whiston Incline 1979
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we get a 1979 view of the steep Whiston Incline. Indeed, so steep was the Incline that it was initially assumed that locomotives would not be able to climb it without the assistance of fixed winding engines: work began on constructing an engine. However, at the Rainhill Trials, the Rocket proved itself capable of managing the Incline alone, and the... Read more
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Olive Mount Cutting 1979
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This spectacular, panoramic picture shows the Olive Mount Cutting in 1979. It is not just the extremely steep walls of the Cutting which impress, but the sharp bend on the railway... Read more
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Excavations at Moorish Arch site II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see a different angle of the Moorish Arch site excavations. Notably, here we can see the actual excavations, and the railway in the background. However, the bed and the trolley are still in evidence... Read more
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Excavations at Moorish Arch site
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see the 1979 excavations on the former site of the Moorish Arch. The most notable feature of this photograph is the debris that has accumulated over the years, the most obvious being a disused bed and a shopping trolley... Read more
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Moorish Arch steps II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Now we get a view from the bottom to the top of the stairs at the Moorish Arch site. The black bag on the fourth step vividly symbolises the neglect into which this area has fallen... Read more
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Moorish Arch steps
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One of the images supplied to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here, also in 1979, we see the steps that once led to the Moorish Arch, now closed off to the public. The graffiti is a poignant reminder of how the site has fallen from grace... Read more
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Site of Moorish Arch 1979
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see the site of the former Moorish Arch. The area is quite clearly neglected: a far cry from the glory days depicted by Thomas Talbot Bury... Read more
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Edge Hill cutting 1979
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This photograph, taken in 1979, shows clearly how the Edge Hill cutting has fallen into disuse and neglect... Read more
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Stone sleeper
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see a disused stone sleeper... Read more
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Site of Crown Street
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This photograph, taken in 1979, shows the former site of the defunct Crown Street station. As you can see, no trace remains of what was once a very important railway station... Read more
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Albert Dock
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This photograph, taken in 1978, shows one of Liverpool’s most famous landmarks, the Albert Dock. Opened in 1846 by the husband of Queen Victoria (after whom it was named, in the first state visit to Liverpool by a member of the Royal Family), the Dock was the first structure in Britain not to contain any wood: it was also one of... Read more
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Crossing the Bridgewater Canal
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here a locomotive pulls a train over the famous Bridgewater Canal in Manchester. The Canal had been one of the major transport routes until the advent of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The Railway itself started due to dissatisfaction with the canals: their fares were high, they did not cope well with large amounts of cargo, and they were seen... Read more
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View across Chat Moss
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One of the images supplied to Metal by Eric Shenton. This engraving effectively captures the desolation of Chat Moss, even as we see two locomotives passing over it. Particularly touching is the sight of two birds in between the tracks: a reminder that Chat Moss is totally unlike any other place on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway... Read more
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Taking in Water at Parkside (The Station where Mr. Huskisson fell) II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. A locomotive stops to take in water at Parkside, the station where William Huskisson was killed on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway... Read more
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Under the Skew Bridge
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. The Planet pulls a goods train under Rainhil’s famous Skew Bridge. Near the line, a dog looks on curiously... Read more
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Olive Mount
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This engraving shows a locomotive pulling a second-class passenger train through the Olive Mount Cutting... Read more
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Railway Office II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This painting shows the Railway Office at Crown Street, the original passenger terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway... Read more
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The Tunnel II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we get a dramatic view inside the Wapping Tunnel, as shown by Thomas Talbot Bury. A locomotive is approaching: the Tunnel entrance is just visible in the background of the painting. Note that it is an error on Bury’s part to show the locomotive, as locomotives were not allowed to use the Wapping Tunnel due to the steep... Read more
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Moorish Arch, Looking from the Tunnel II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we again see Thomas Talbot Bury’s depiction of the famous Moorish Arch... Read more
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Warehouses Etc. at the end of the Tunnel Towards Wapping II
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One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see Thomas Talbot Bury’s depiction of goods work at the Wapping Tunnel... Read more
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway horse wagon
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 28th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see a horse wagon on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It is noticeable that unlike the the animals in the other wagons, the horse looks rather stately and dignified, with no attempt to escape and, indeed, no humans keeping a wary eye on it... Read more
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway pig wagon
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 28th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see, from one of the Bury prints, a wagon containing pigs being taken to market for slaughter on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. One of the pigs is trying to escape, while a man brandishes his whip to prevent it. To the left we see a horse wagon, to the right a cattle wagon... Read more
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Planet
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 28th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is an engraving of the Planet, the ninth locomotive to be built for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway by Robert Stephenson and Company. It was the first design change after the Rocket: it was the first locomotive to have inside cyliners, and the first to use a 2-2-0 wheel arrangement - as a result, locomotives in this class... Read more
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Chinese coach
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see a Chinese coach used on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway... Read more
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway mail coach
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This shows a coach from the mail train on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, though oddly enough it has passengers inside it: presumably the suitcase on top contains the mail, with the guard keeping a watchful eye on it. The letters “WR” on the side of the coach stand for “William Rex” - William IV, King from 1830 to 1837. When the... Read more
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Second-class conditions for second-class people
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Thomas Talbot Bury’s depiction of a typical second-class coach on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Although there is a roof, the doors only go halfway up, leaving passengers exposed to the elements, and the passengers are bunched up uncomfortably close, suggesting that they have to stand up. Despite this, the passengers look reasonably well dressed, suggesting that the newly... Read more
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Marquess of Stafford’s coach
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here is Thomas Talbot Bury’s impression of the coach which, on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, would have borne the Marquess of Stafford - the man whose vested interests nearly prevented the Railway from going ahead at all... Read more
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Wellington’s carriage III
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see Thomas Talbot Bury’s depiction of the carriage in which the Duke of Wellington rode on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway... Read more
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Model of Stockton and Darlington Railway coach
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images supplied to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is a miniature model of a coach which would have been used on the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1826. Although the Stockton and Darlington was established primarily to carry coal from inland mines to the coastal town of Stockton, so that they could be loaded onto ships, it soon set up an experimental passenger service. However, initially these coaches... Read more
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Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway IV
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images supplied to Metal by Eric Shenton. This extract from one of the Bury prints shows the locomotive Jupiter pulling a first-class train, while in the bottom half another locomotive pulls a second-class train... Read more
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway rolling stock
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is one of the Bury prints. It shows typical examples of the rolling stock on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The top third of the print shows a typical early locomotive and a coach used to convey Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of King William IV. In the middle third, we see the coach that carried the Duke of Wellington... Read more
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Northumbrian II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images supplied to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is a darker version of the engravement in the previous image, depicting the Northumbrian... Read more
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Northumbrian
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images supplied to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is a contemporary drawing of the Northumbrian, one of the first batch of locomotives built by Robert Stephenson in 1830 for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Like the Rocket, it used the 0-2-2 wheel arrangement, but was the last Stephenson locomotive to do so. The Northumbrian was the first locomotive where the Stephenson-type firebox was incorporated into the boiler,... Read more
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Rocket at Rainhill Trials II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. A darker version of the previous photograph, showing the victorious Rocket at the Rainhill Trials... Read more
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Rocket at Rainhill Trials
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images supplied to Metal by Eric Shenton. This mural of the Rainhill Trials shows the eventual winner, the Rocket. On 5th October, the day before the Trials started, the Rocket put in an impressive performance. Three days later, it got its chance in the competition. It was able, as the rules required, to pull three times its own weight. Its performance was faultless and on its last... Read more
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Novelty II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This is a darker version of the mural in the previous image, depicting the Novelty at the Rainhill Trials... Read more
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Novelty
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This mural shows the Novelty, another of the failed entrants at the Rainhill Trials, but one that nevertheless captured the public imagination. It was built in London by John Ericsson and John Braithwaite, and used a 0-2-2WT wheel arrangement - it is regarded as the world’s first tank engine. No other British locomotive was ever built in... Read more
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Sans Pareil II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Once again, we can see a mural of the Sans Pareil at the Rainhill Trials, but in a darker hue than the previous image... Read more
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Sans Pareil
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see the Sans Pareil (without equal), one of the failed entrants in the Rainhill Trials, but one that performed far better than the Cycloped or the Perseverance. It was built by the distinguished engineer Timothy Hackworth, and used a 0-4-0 wheel arrangement. It was allowed to enter the Trials despite being above the weight limit. The judges... Read more
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Perseverance II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we again see the Perseverance at the Rainhill Trials, but in a darker shade than in the previous image... Read more
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Perseverance
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. The Perseverance was another of the failed entrants in the Rainhill Trials, and, like the Cycloped, was never in contention to win the prize. Designed by Timothy Burstall, its chain failed en route to Rainhill, and Burstall was forced to spend the first five days of the competition repairing it. As a result, contemporary newspaper reports barely mention the Perseverance,... Read more
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Cycloped
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 24th October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This drawing shows the design of the Cycloped, one of the failed entrants in the Rainhill Trials. Built by the Liverpool engineer Thomas Shaw Brandreth, one of the directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, as you can see, it was powered by a horse walking on a drive belt - it was thus the only entrant not to use... Read more
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Skew Bridge
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This, and the succeeding images, are taken from a mural that hang at Rainhill between 1979 and 1981 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Rainhill Trials. This one depicts Rainhill’s famous Skew Bridge.... Read more
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Building the Wapping Tunnel - in the dark
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This engraving also shows the construction of the Wapping Tunnel, but is of a darker tone than the previous one... Read more
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Building the Wapping Tunnel
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One off the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. This contemporary engraving shows the construction of the Wapping Tunnel during the building of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway... Read more
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Second class replica coach
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here is a replica second class coach, again produced for Rocket 150. Note how this coach, in contrast to its first class counterpart, has no roof - not a good idea in an area known for its rainfall!... Read more
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First class replica coach
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 21st October 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here we see a replica of a first class coach from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, produced in 1979 for Rocket 150, the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Rainhill Trials. First class coaches were by far the most comfortable, with seats and a roof to shield passengers from the elements... Read more
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Railway Office, Liverpool
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 19th September 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Here we see the Railway Office, presumably the headquarters of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company... Read more
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Entrance of the Railway at Edge Hill, Liverpool II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 19th September 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway... Read more
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Station building II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 19th September 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a view from the end of platform one at Edge Hill Station, it shows the station buidings plus some other buildings which are no longer there. A train waits at the platform, and a goods train is on a siding... Read more
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Diesel multiple unit II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 19th September 2011 | 0 Comments
A diesel multiple unit waits at platform 2 of Edge Hill station, with another train in the background. Note the bridge link and canopy that has now been removed between platforms 2 and 3.... Read more
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Station building
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 19th September 2011 | 0 Comments
The most prominent feature of this photograph is the station building. Also visible is a diesel multiple unit or railcar - two of its doors are open, though whether for boarding, disembarking or both is unclear. Finally, there is a goods train on a siding... Read more
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2F50
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 19th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Number 2F50, a diesel multiple unit, prepares to leave a station... Read more
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Two multiple units
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 19th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Two diesel multiple units wait at a platform, one behind the other. The back end of another train can be seen on platform two... Read more
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Diesel multiple unit
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 19th September 2011 | 0 Comments
A diesel multiple unit waits at the platform at Edge Hill Station. Another train can be seen in the background. However, no passengers are visible in this photograph... Read more
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Stephenson’s Rocket
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Here is a replica of the most famous locomotive of all time, George Stephenson’s Rocket. It was built to a 0-2-2 design (no leading wheels, two driving wheels and two trailing wheels) which was the original design for locomotives on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway - the Rocket was one of nine locomotives built to this design used on the pioneering railway (another engine in the same class... Read more
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Construction work
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th September 2011 | 0 Comments
This is an engraving from the early days of railways. A steam locomotive, possibly intended to be the Rocket, travels through a cutting while all around it men are hard at work, presumably enlarging it. A horse and cart passes over the top of the bridge... Read more
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Locomotive 5927
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th September 2011 | 0 Comments
A tender locomotive, number 5927, leaves the shed, while in the background another one enters it... Read more
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One out, one in
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Two tender locomotives can be seen, one emerging from the shed, the other entering it... Read more
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LMS tank engine
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th September 2011 | 0 Comments
This picture shows a tank locomotive belonging to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway... Read more
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Elongated tank engine II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Here an elongated tank locomotive is visible, numbered 7949 and bearing the logo of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway... Read more
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Tank locomotive passing under a bridge
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Here a tank locomotive, numbered 47519, passes underneath a bridge. Many houses can be seen nearby, and buffers are visible next to the engine... Read more
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Locomotive 46202
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Here, locomotive 46202, a Pacific Class engine, enters the shed... Read more
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Passing by houses
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th September 2011 | 0 Comments
In this image, a tender locomotive pulls a passenger train. The rooves of nearby houses can be seen on the right-hand side of the picture. Railway signals feature prominently... Read more
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Maureen Hunt remembers a woman who had been in the French Resistance
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 12th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Maureen Hunt remembers Swainbanks, a since-demolished second-hand shop at the top of Chatsworth Street, one of whose employees was a woman who had been in the French Resistance during the Second World War, and who would donate her flowers to the church in Overton Street every Sunday... Read more
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Maureen Hunt remembers the Tunnel picture house
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 12th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Maureen Hunt recalls the Tunnel picture house on Tunnel Road, nicknamed the “Tunny”. She remembers how the trains could be heard passing by during the films. Maureen and her sister Betty would station a boy at each end of the row, to guard against any would-be harassers, and once played a trick on their brother George! Maureen also remembers how one of her friends lost her contact lens in the... Read more
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Jeff Jones relates his memories of Broad Green station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 12th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Jeff Jones recalls how, as a boy, he would sneak into Broad Green station, watch the trains go past through the window in the waiting room, and get warmed by the fire in winter. He also mentions that there was a goldfish pond there as well! At night, Jeff and his friends would cling onto the station railings, until tank locomotive 4471 came by, with its fireman hoespiping hot water! In... Read more
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Jeff Jones talks about his lifelong passion for railways
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 12th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Jeff Jones mentions how he has always had a passion for railways: when he was a boy, he received a Triang Queen Elizabeth railway set for Christmas, and was so excited he earned himself a clip round the ear for getting out of bed in the early hours! He recalls meeting Fred Dibnah, the late celebrity steeplejack and steam enthusiast, at a steam locomotives exhbition. Jeff mentions his passion for... Read more
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Pat Moffat recalls an all too rare train ride from Chester to Liverpool Central
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 9th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Pat Moffat explains that she used to come to the station to watch trains and visit Uncle Jackie, but could not afford to travel on them, and thus assumed rail travel was only for posh people! Nevertheless, she did get to ride on a train once, much to the envy of her brothers and sisters: after having major hearing surgery in Chester, she returned home by train, accompanied by a... Read more
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Andrew Pearce talks about how St. Patrick once preached in Liverpool
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 9th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Andrew Pearce mentions that St. Patrick is supposed to have preached in Liverpool, before he went to Ireland, in 432. This information comes from a plaque, formerly on a now-demolished Catholic Church in Great Crosshall Street... Read more
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Andrew Peace talks about an earthquake in about AD 600 that changed the direction of the Mersey
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 9th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Andrew Pearce, chairman of the now-defunct Liverpool Heritage Forum talks about the Mersey, explaining that it is an estuary, not a river. It was once a river, he says, but then an earthquake in about AD 600 changed its direction and turned it into a estuary: this may explain, he feels, why the Romans never settled in what is now Liverpool, despite being in many neighbouring locations. He also says that... Read more
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Fred Currah talks of how he would pick up ship passengers at Riverside station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 19th August 2011 | 0 Comments
Fred Currah recounts how trains at Riverside station near Albert Dock would pick people who had disembarked from liners and take them on long-distance journeys to the big cities. However, this died out as air transport became more popular. Liverpool Riverside station was opened in 1895 by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, for the aformentioned purpose, at the end of a branch line that connected to the London and North... Read more
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Graham Trust talks about the terminus at Crown Street
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 5th August 2011 | 0 Comments
Graham Trust mentions Crown Street, the original passenger terminus on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The carriages would be detached from the locomotive, and pulled uphill to Crown Street by ropes powered by a fixed engine, while goods rolling stock would also be detached and would go through a tunnel to Wapping Dock by gravity, before being pulled back up to Edge Hill by the same fixed engine... Read more
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The McElroys share their memories of travelling by train
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 1st August 2011 | 0 Comments
David and Steve McElroy talk about their train journeys when they were boys. As they were not well off, they did not travel by rail often, usually reserving it for long-distance journeys such as visiting their aunt in London, and other relatives in Llandudno. Steve also recalls a frightening experience he had once when he was lifted onto the locomotive’s footplate and saw the raging furnace as the fireman... Read more
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Demonstration truck
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th June 2011 | 0 Comments
This photograph shows a small truck on display. An unidentified vehicle can be seen on the edge of the photograph... Read more
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Les Coe tells a Williamson’s Tunnels Story
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 1 Comments
Les Coe, a member of the Friends of Williamson’s Tunnels, tells a story about how Williamson’s men scared Stephenson’s men during the building of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway.... Read more
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Les Coe on the Williamson Tunnels
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 15th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Hear about the connection between Williamson Tunnels and George Stephenson’s son Robert and how both men’s teams of workers joined forces to dig the tunnels for the Wapping cutting.... Read more
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Picture Houses
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 15th May 2011 | 0 Comments
memories of the local cinemas, the Tunny and the Capital... Read more
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Locomotive 7250
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Here, an LMS tank locomotive numbered 7250 appears to be leaving the shed, closely followed by another engine. A tender locomotive heads in the opposite direction.... Read more
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About to leave the station
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
An evocative photograph depicting the view from the platform of a tender locomotive as it sets out. This may well be part of the same story told in “Lines”, “Leaving the station”, “Deserted station”, “Starting off from the station” and “Setting out”.... Read more
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Locomotive 6886
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Here a tank engine, locomotive 6886, appears to have something wrong with it. The fireman looks out of the cabin, a man stands on the boiler examining the whistle, while some other men, on the margins of the picture, stand next to the locomotive.... Read more
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Locomotive 44971 II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
The same scene as in “Locomotive 44971”: the only difference being that this time the camera is slightly to the left.... Read more
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Hardwicke
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
This is Hardwicke, part of the London and North Western Railway’s Improved Precedent Class - 166 such locomotives were built at Crewe between 1887 and 1897. Officially, they were rebuilds of 96 Newton Class and 80 Precedent Class, but were in fact completely new - they were “paper rebuilds” that were recorded as such for accountancy purposes in the asset register, and kept their predecessors’ names and numbers. The Hardwicke was the most famous... Read more
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Iron Duke
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a photograph of a replica of the Iron Duke, part of the broad-gauge Iron Duke class of locomotives on the Great Western Railway. They were built to pull the express, and could travel up to 80 mph. In particular, they pulled what was then the world’s fastest express train, the Flying Dutchman, which ran between Paddington and Exeter. The first locomotive of that class was called the Great... Read more
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The Merseyside Express
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
The Merseyside Express arrives at Edge Hill Platform 3, travelling away from Lime Street, pulling a passenger train. The Merseyside Express was one of the two long-distance services from London to Southport, along with the Red Rose... Read more
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Two images
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
The top image on this postcard shows a tender locomotive, pushing what appears to be a wagon of some sort. The same scene is depicted in the bottom picture, but in darkness, though it is unclear whether this is intentional, to give the impression of night, or the result of a fault in processing the postcard.... Read more
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Locomotive 2564
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
A tender locomotive, number 2564, and another tender locomotive behind it.... Read more
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Locomotive 7334
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Locomotive 7334 on a siding. Although it is a tank locomotive, note the absence of a bunker. Note also a truck, just behind the locomotive.... Read more
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Two diesel-electrics
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
The same scene as in “Diesel-electric locomotive on a siding”, but the colouring is lighter.... Read more
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Two tender
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Two tender locomotives side by side.... Read more
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Pushing a truck
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
A tender locomotive pushes a truck.... Read more
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Diesel-electric locomotive in front of the shed
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
A diesel-electric locomotive stops in front of the shed while a man, perhaps its driver, inspects, possibly seeing if anything is wrong with it.... Read more
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A shedload of locomotives
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Six locomotives appear in this scene, four leaving the shed, two entering it. All appear to be tender locomotives: one of those entering the shed is pulling a wagon, while the other’s fireman is either climbing in or climbing out. A church spire can be seen in the background.... Read more
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Pulling a truck
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
A tender locomotive pulls a truck in the goods yard.... Read more
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Locomotive 27626
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Locomotive 27626 leaves the shed, along with another LMS tank locomotive. Another locomotive, looking like a tender engine, remains behind.... Read more
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Tender locomotive in the shed
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Here a tender locomotive is seen in the shed.... Read more
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Locomotive 5197
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Locomotive 5197, a diesel-electric, travels across a bridge, pulling at least one carriage. Below can be seen a carriage belonging to another train. Electric overhead power lines are visible, a result of the Modernisation Plan of 1955, which began the dieselisation and electrification of the railways.... Read more
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View from a bridge
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see the panaromic view from the top of a bridge of the surrounding countryside and buildings.... Read more
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Elongated tank engine
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
A tank locomotive, but with rather a long boiler, like a tender engine. A bridge and telegraph pole are visible in the background.... Read more
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Steaming away from the shed
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A locomotive lets off a lot of steam as it leaves the shed.... Read more
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Tenderly does it II
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Almost exactly the same scene as in “Tenderly does it”: the only difference is the appearance of some completely unaccountable thing in the top right-hand corner of the postcard.... Read more
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Locomotive 58908
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Locomotive 58908 journeys on; its fireman can be seen looking out, perhaps checking that the smoke is behaving normally.... Read more
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Tenderly does it
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Three tender locomotives are the most obvious features of this postcard. The object just behind the background locomotive may be another one, or may be a truck. A bridge can be made out at the very back of the picture.... Read more
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Locomotive 51445
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Locomotive 51445, a tank locomotive, leaves the shed, followed closely by a tender locomotive. In the background, heading towards the shed, is what may be a diesel locomotive.... Read more
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Trucks
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Two trucks are coupled together on a siding. A chain can be seen running beneath and behind them. Another truck is visible in the background.... Read more
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Locomotive 5543
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Locomotive 5543 makes its way along the railway. It seems to be passing by or working in the goods yard.... Read more
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In and out of the shed
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Two tender locomotives leave the shed, a tank locomotive enters it.... Read more
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Steaming up
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A locomotive emanates steam from its wheels.... Read more
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Water towers
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Two water towers can be seen. On the left, a locomotive pushing a goods train stops to take in water. Behind it, another locomotive goes past.... Read more
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Taking in coal
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A locomotive stops at the coaling stage to take in more coal. Presumably the small building in front of the stage is where the coal would be stored before being loaded into the stage.... Read more
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Locomotive 45547
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Locomotive 45547 lets off steam. The steam obscures the picture so it is impossible to gauge the location.... Read more
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Locomotive 204
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Locomotive 204, a tank engine, whistles near a building, possibly a factory.... Read more
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In the goods yard
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A tender LMS locomotive at work in the goods yard. In the background are two coal trucks, and a small building, perhaps for storing coal, is next to them. Possibly, another locomotive can be glimpsed on the left of the picture.... Read more
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Three locomotives and the shed
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A tank locomotive, in the middle, and a tender locomotive, on the right, stand outside the shed - the tank locomotive seems to be pulling a guard’s van. On the left, another tender engine faces the shed.... Read more
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Locomotive 44971
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Locomotive 44971 travels along the railway line.... Read more
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Two tank engines
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Two tank locomotives side by side. Possibly the building behind them is the shed.... Read more
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Tank locomotive in the shed
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A tank locomotive, number 46620, inside the shed. On the boiler, the words “British Railways”, can be seen, implying that this photograph was taken after nationalisation. There is something on the left of the picture, but it is hard to judge what it is.... Read more
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Entering the shed
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A locomotive enters the shed. On the right, there appears to be another locomotive leaving the shed. Because of the darkness of the photograph, it is impossible to say what is inside the shed.... Read more
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Emerging from the shed at dawn
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Dawn, judging by the dark quality of the photograph and the fact that the lights on the shed are switched on. A locomotive is emerging from the shed; a coal truck (possibly part of a train) is on the right of the picture.... Read more
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Inside the shed
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A tender locomotive in the shed.... Read more
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Tender locomotive
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This postcard shows a tender locomotive travelling.... Read more
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Diesel-electric locomotive on a siding
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A diesel-electric locomotive is seen on a siding: the rear end of another such locomotive can be glimpsed. They appear to be next to a factory.... Read more
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Travelling along the tracks
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A solitary tender locomotive travels along the railway track. In the background is either the shed or a bridge: the details are too vague to definitively identy it.... Read more
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Exodus from the shed
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The shed features yet again, with at least three locomotives visible leaving it.... Read more
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Shed again
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Here we see a straight-on view of the shed. A locomotive is coming out in the middle of the picture, while on the right, another locomotive is pulling a guard’s van into the shed.... Read more
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British Rail
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Here, a diesel-electric locomotive, with the well-known British Rail emblem, is on a siding, in front of some buffers. British Railways (BR) was created in 1948 when the railways were nationalised, replacing the “Big Four”: as of 1st January 1965, it traded as British Rail. It was originally the business name of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission (BTC), and included all railways in Great Britain except industrial railways, narrow-gauge... Read more
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LMS
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A locomotive marked “LMS” (London, Midland and Scottish Railway) is just outside the shed. It appers to be coupled, back to back, to anther locomotive: a third locomotive, marked LMS on its tender, is seen in the background. The LMS was created in 1923 as a result of the Railways Act of 1921, which forced the over 120 railway companies in the UK to merge into the so-called “Big Four” - the other... Read more
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Setting out
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Here a locomotive leaves a station. This seems to be the same engine and station as in “Lines”, “Leaving the station”, “Deserted station” and Starting off from the station”.... Read more
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Tank locomotive leaving the shed
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Here a tank locomotive, number 47493, possibly the same one seen staying behind in the previous photograph, departs the shed.... Read more
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Leaving the shed
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Two locomotives leave the shed to start work: a third remains behind.... Read more
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Passing on the line
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This postcard is dominated by the tender locomotive in the foreground: in the background, another locomotive, possibly a tank engine, passes by in the opposite direction.... Read more
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Two tender engines
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Two tender locomotives are visible here, though one can only be partially seen, its smokebox having nudged ahead of its counterpart in the foreground. Exactly where they are and what is going on are not clear.... Read more
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Shed
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In this postcard, two steam locomotives emerge from a shed: one, on the right, a tender engine, the other, in the middle of the picture, and somewhat further back, a tank engine. On the left, a second tender locomotive enters the shed.... Read more
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Full steam ahead
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Here we see a tender locomotive pulling a passenger train out of a station, puffing smoke and steam very hard.... Read more
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Turntable
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This photograph depicts a tender locomotive on what appears to be a turntable.... Read more
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Locomotive 45533
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Locomotive 45533 travels through the tunnels in the previous two photographs... Read more
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Locomotive 46164
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Locomotive 46164 makes its way through the tunnels in the previous photograph... Read more
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Deserted tracks
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In this photograph, we see four completely deserted railway tracks running through four tunnels. The location is unclear... Read more
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Locomotive 46138
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Holy smoke! Locomotive 46138 leaves Lime Street, pulling a long passenger train, churning out so much smoke that it darkens the picture... Read more
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Locomotive 45527
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Here, Locomotive 45527 steams out of what looks like Lime Street station, judging by the wall on the right-hand side, and the tunnel through which this long passenger train is travelling... Read more
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Locomotive 45704
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This photograph depicts Locomotive 45704 steaming out of a station, possibly Lime Street, but almost certainly not Edge Hill, given the presence of the small tunnel on the right... Read more
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Coal pile-up
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Yet another photograph of the first Crown Street Tunnel, notable for the massive pile-up of coal in front of the entrance. Crown Street was still being used as a goods depot at the time the photograph would have been taken: presumably the coal would have collected by goods trains to take away to where it was needed... Read more
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Old Crown Street Tunnel
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Here is another view of the original Crown Street Tunnel. Note the disused barrels and pile of coal to the left-hand side of the line, and the small hut on the right... Read more
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Lime Street
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One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. This one shows Liverpool Lime Street station, which was opened in 1836 to become the new Liverpool terminus, replacing Crown Street. Since then, it has been at the very centre of Liverpool’s railway network, and is used as the calling point for all long-distance journeys. It is by... Read more
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Olive Mount Cutting, Near Liverpool
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Here we see two steam locomotives travelling through the Olive Mount Cutting: note the high, commanding rocks of the quarry, next to the locomotive on the right, and the toweringly high tunnel through which both have just passed. For more information on the Olive Mount Cutting, see “Excavation of the Olive Mount, Liverpool and Manchester Railway”... Read more
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Overgrown tunnel
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This photograph shows a tunnel, possibly the original tunnel at Crown Street, that has fallen into disuse and has become overgrown... Read more
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Crown Street Tunnel
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This is a view of the Crown Street Tunnel. Crown Street station was the original western passenger terminus on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and was thus the world’s first dedicated passenger station. It was reached via a single-track tunnel, the oldest railway tunnel in the world, between it and Edge Hill. Locomotives would stop at an engine transfer point at Edge Hill, while carriages would be cable-worked through... Read more
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Crows Tunnel
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This is a photograph of the Crows Tunnel from 1957... Read more
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Horses
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Here, two horses pull a cart out of the Crown Street Tunnel. Horses were often used in shunting... Read more
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Tower
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This is one of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). Here you can see an extremely tall tower, presumably belonging to a factory. Two men can be seen be seen at the top, doing some work there. One only hopes they are not frightened of heights! All around the tower, you can see the... Read more
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Letting off steam
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This is one of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). This dramatic scene apparently takes place just before the one in “Two locomotives” - we see the third locomotive (the one seen in the background of the later photograph) just outside the signalbox, just behind another engine, which is letting off steam excessively:... Read more
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An odd couple
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This is one of the photographs donated to Edge Hill by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). Here we see two tender locomotives coupled together. They do not seem to be moving - a group of men, possibly including the two drivers and firemen, are standing next to them and appear to having a discussion of some sort. Further away,... Read more
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Goods yard
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This is one of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). This one is of a goods yard. Long rows of trucks can be seen, as can a locomotive. There is also a building under construction, possibly a shed to house the trucks, and a signal tower: in the background, on the main line, there... Read more
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Points II
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This is one of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). This is one is a smaller version of “Points” - the scenes are identical in each one... Read more
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Diesel locomotive
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This is one of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). This one depicts a diesel locomotive carrying passengers, pulling another carriage. Just behind it is a bridge, and on the right of the picture, on a separate line (divided by a barrier from the other line), a steam locomotive is pushing trucks and a... Read more
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Starting off from the station
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This is one of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). Here we see he locomotive featured in “Lines” and “Leaving the station”, just beginning to depart from the station... Read more
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Deserted station
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One of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). Although some carriages can be seen on the left, they are not immediately adjacent to the platform, and there similarly seems to be little activity relating to the trucks on the right. No locomotive is visible, nor are there any people, and the station overall seems... Read more
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Waiting for a signal
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One of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). A locomotive pushing a goods train is forced to stop at a quadrant signal, watched by passengers waiting on a platform served by the line to the right. To the left, another goods train has also been made to stop by a signal: on the line... Read more
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Leaving the station
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One of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). This photograph appears to show the same train as in the previous picture, now steaming out of the station... Read more
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Lines
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One of the photogaphs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). This one shows a station (probably not Edge Hill, judging from the layout), but, more prominently, it shows the lines leading away from the station. A locomotive is just pulling into the station. This photograph seems to be a comparatively recent one: the railway signals are... Read more
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Locomotive and trucks on siding
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This is one of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). Here a tank locomotive (with a very large funnel and dome) and three trucks are on a siding. Two more trucks are visible in the background, and a guard’s van or carriage on the right. On the left of the photograph, just next... Read more
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Two locomotives
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One of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). Here we see two tender locomotives, one very close behind the other, possibly impyling that they are coupled. A platform is visible on the left, with two men standing on it, but the first locomotive, at least, is already past the set of points leading to... Read more
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Points
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One of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). Here we see a tender locomotive pulling a passenger train as it approaches a set of points. In the background, you can see a signalbox and two signals, and a goods train is visible on the left of the picture. To the right of the locomotive... Read more
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Train passing under a bridge
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One of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). This one depicts a locomotive pulling a passenger train, passing under a bridge, with another bridge in the backgound... Read more
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View from a tunnel
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One of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). Here we see a view from a tunnel of what appears to be a factory, and a housing estate in the background. Two cars are parked outside the factory, and the yard is clearly in a poor state... Read more
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Engine on siding
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This is one of the photographs donated to Metal by Dennis Flood, a railway enthusiast (not to be confused with the photographer of the same name). This one depicts an engine on a siding, with a sheet draped over its cabin. An abandoned carriage can be seen on the right edge of the photograph... Read more
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Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway III
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Despite the shared name, this image depicts a very different scene from the two previous ones. The top half is labelled “A Train of Waggons with Goods, &c. &c.”, and shows a locomotive pulling a train with all manner of goods, including urns of milk , logs and barrels. The train is passing by a water stop, perhaps implying Parkside station. On a number of the trucks, men can... Read more
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Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway II
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A more brightly-coloured version of the previous image... Read more
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Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
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This picture is in two halves. The top half is labelled, “A Train of the First Class of Carriages, with the Mail”, and the bottom half, “A Train of the Second Class for outside Passengers”. It clearly brings out the contrast between the two classes: the first-class passengers sit in enclosed carriages, with each enjoying their own compartment and comfortable seats in those compartments: their luggage is on the rooves... Read more
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View on the Intersection Bridge on the Line of the St. Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway
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This painting, executed by S G Hughes, shows the Intersection Bridge on the St. Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway, which crosses the Liverpool and Manchester Railway near the foot of the Sutton-inclined plane, near Wides. A train of coal trucks can be seen passing over the bridge, while below it, a train on the Liverpool and Manchester line is just coming into view on the left-hand side. The Bridge’s... Read more
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Taking in Water at Parkside (The Station where Mr. Huskisson fell)
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One of the Bury Prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Here, a train is seen taking in water at Parkside. Parkside station was one of the original stations on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and, as the picture shows, was used for water stops, as it lay halfway between the two cities. As the painting’s subtitle mentions,... Read more
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Rainhill Bridge
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One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. This one shows a train passing under the George Stephenson Skew Bridge at Rainhill, so called because of the unusual angle at which it passes over the railway, the first railway bridge to do so. The people on the Bridge watch with interest, while a horse-drawn cart can... Read more
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Near Liverpool, Looking Towards Manchester
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One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. This one shows a train passing under a viaduct, along with a panoramic view of the countryside near Liverpool... Read more
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Moorish Arch, Looking from the Tunnel
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One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Here we see another view of the Wapping Tunnel, dominated by the lovely Moorish Arch. A steam engine can be seen just in front of the Arch, and near that, a railwayman proudly shows off a truck to a well-off couple. When the Railway was being constructed, George... Read more
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Warehouses Etc. at the end of the Tunnel Towards Wapping
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One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Here we see the Wapping or Edge Hill Tunnel, which was built as part of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, to allow for goods trains between the docks and Manchester. It runs from Edge Hill cutting to Park Lane station, near Wapping Dock. Built on a severe 1 in 48... Read more
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Railway Office
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One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Livepool and Manchester Railway. This one depicts the railway office, presumably the headquarters of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, at Crown Street. Carriages and a guard’s van can be seen outside the office, a tunnel is just visible in the background, and in the foreground you can see people crossing... Read more
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Entrance into Manchester via Water Street
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One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. This one shows a train entering Manchester Liverpool Road station, the original Manchester terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The station was built as a bridge over Water Street and the River Irwell, and was some distance from Manchester city centre, so most passengers bought handwritten tickets... Read more
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Railway Across Chat Moss, Coloured View of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
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One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpoool and Manchester Railway. This painting shows the Railway passing through Chat Moss, a peat bog area in Salford. The bog initially threatened the completion of the Railway, because it was hard to provide a solid basis for the line. In fact, all the earliest proposals for the route circumvented Chat Moss:... Read more
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Viaduct across the Sankey Valley
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One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Here we see the Sankey Viaduct, which crosses the Sankey Brook, the first canal of the Industrial Revolution being crossed by the world’s first purpose-built passenger railway. The Sankey Brook Navigation Company insisted on a clearance of 60 feet to accomodate the shipping which used the canal. The... Read more
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Excavation of the Olive Mount, Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 3rd May 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Here we see the excavation of the Olive Mount Cutting, 20 feet wide and 70 feet deep, which links the junctions at Olive Mount and Edge Lane, providing access to the Bootle Branch. When the Railway was being built by George Stephenson, 480,000 cubic yards of sandstone rock had to be... Read more
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The Tunnel
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 3rd May 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. This one depicts the Wapping Tunnel... Read more
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Entrance of the Railway at Edge Hill, Liverpool
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One of the Bury prints, painted by Thomas Talbot Bury, who was commissioned to paint depictions of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway... Read more
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Margeret discusses how Edge Hill has changed as a result of the regeneration process
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Margeret talks to Alicia Rose about her memories of the Edge Hill area and how it is changing through the regeneration process... Read more
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Lucy Halligan criticises the fiasco that the regeneration process has become
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Lucy Halligan talks about the regeneration of the Edge Hill area and the new houses that are to replace the old terraced streets and the Victorian properties along Edge Lane. The old houses have been up for over 100yrs the new ones have an expected lifespan of 30yrs.... Read more
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Lucy Halligan laments the lack of vision displayed in the regeneration of Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Lucy Halligan talks about the regeneration of Edge Lane and the demolition of empty houses.... Read more
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Lucy Halligan mentions the Williamson Tunnels
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Lucy Halligan talks about the Willamson Tunnels in Edge Hill and recounts a tale of the Willamson tunnel workers running into the Edge Hill railway workers while digging tunnels underground.... Read more
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