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An Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Liverpool: Wales and Baines. OCLC 30937. OL 16085034W. Carlson, Robert (1969). The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Project 1821–1831. Newton Abbot, UK: David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4646-6. Dendy Marshall, C. F. (1930). Centenary History of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway (1st ed.).
Stephenson's Rocket of 1829 This is a list of locomotives that were used or trialled on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) during its construction, at the Rainhill Trials, and until absorption by the Grand Junction Railway in 1845. The rate of progress led to quite a rapid turnover in the operating roster. Writing in 1835, Count de Pambour found that of the L&MR's then thirty engines ...
The history of rail transport in Great Britain 1830–1922 covers the period between the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), and the Grouping, the amalgamation of almost all of Britain's many railway companies into the Big Four by the Railways Act 1921. The inaugural journey of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, by A.B ...
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1830 [note 6] The directors of the L&M set out to do all they could to make the opening day a success. It was decided that for the opening, the dignitaries and guests would assemble in Liverpool, and eight of the L&M's locomotives would haul them in special trains to Liverpool Road railway station , the ...
Slightly fanciful contemporary depiction of Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Construction begins on the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad between Albany and Schenectady, New York. August 28 – In a race between the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road's Tom Thumb and a stagecoach near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, the horse and coach wins. [2] [3]
Bury, Thomas Talbot (1831), Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway: With Plates of the Coaches, Machines, Etc. ... with Descriptive Particulars, Serving as a Guide to Travellers on the Railway, London: Ackerman; Ferneyhough, Frank (1980). Liverpool & Manchester Railway, 1830-1980. R. Hale. ISBN 978-0-7091-8137-8.
The history of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830 covers the period up to the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first intercity passenger railway operated solely by steam locomotives. The earliest form of railways, horse-drawn wagonways, originated in Germany in the 16th century. Soon wagonways were also built in ...
In the Victorian era, both cities underwent substantial industrialisation. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 was the world's first inter-city railway, [2] and the first railway to rely exclusively on locomotives driven by steam power, with no horse-drawn traffic permitted at any time; the first to be entirely double track throughout its length; the first to have a signalling system ...