What’s on in Merseyside 1980 - August-November

Resource Type: Image | Posted on 18th November 2011 by Liam Physick

These are the last two pages of What’s on in Merseyside 1980, covering August, September, October and November. The Rainhill Trials Exhbition and the Newton 150 Exhibition will contine until the end of October, the Edge Hill Rail Trail and the Edge Hill Exhbition until the end of November. For the fourth time, the Locomotives in Steam event in Southport will take place, this time on 24th and 25th August, and there will be a Croxteth Steam and Country Fair on 30th and 31st August. There will be two special steam-hauled anniversary trains, one on 14th September, the anniversary of the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and one on 10th November, to commemorate the first-ever mail train

Tagged under: steam locomotives, edge hill station, liverpool and manchester railway, rocket 150, moorish arch, rocket, tunnels, tunnels, rainhill trials, wapping tunnel

Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers