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Finding Out About The Liverpool And Manchester Railway
Finding Out About The Liverpool And Manchester Railway by Turner 1980 Soft Cover 58 Pages
PREFACE
Railways and railway working have provided themes for a considerable and diversified literature from their earliest days, and more recently have become subjects of scholarly analysis.
This booklet identifies and assembles references to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, whose 150th anniversary falls this year. This line can justifiably be regarded as the first modern railway in the full sense of the term; contemporaries seemed aware that its opening indeed marked something new in land transport. illustrations, pamphlets, decorative pottery and textiles, medals commemorated the new railway; travellers' impressions and observations were circulated; engineering and constructional work was described. Isere was a purpose-built railway between two important centres of commerce and manufacture, envisaged to carry regularly from the outset passenger as well as freight traffic between specially built halting-placesthe renowned Liverpool Road station in Manchester survives, much of it in original form.
The line's antecedents were the tramroads and wagon-ways of mining and industrial districts in the preceding century on which, in some places, rudimentary steam locomotives were working by the early 1800's. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway's engineer, George Stephenson, learned his craft and developed his skill amid the colliery lines of North-East England. His persevering advocacy of steam haulage was vindicated in the Rainhill Trials and determined that all traffic would be worked throughout by steam engines. The character of the Liverpool and Manchester line, the successful fulfilment of its intentions, set the pattern for later railway development and together ensured that the year 1830, with justification, can be looked upon as the symbolic inauguration of the Railway Age.
The material contained in this booklet is available for consultation in Lancashire libraries, the figures to the right of each entry indicating exactly which (see "Key to Locations", p. vii). The various items are listed alphabetically, each with a progressive number, the only exception being "Acts of Parliament" where a chronological sequence has been adopted. The two comprehensive indexes, author and topographical, refer to the progressive numbers and not to pages to ensure quicker identification of the required book.
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