Rocket pulling replica coach

Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 by Liam Physick

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