A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY, a railway in Lancashire; from Liverpool, east by northward, to Manchester. It was authorized in 1826; was opened in 1830; was amalgamated with the Grand Junction and other lines in 1 846; and passed, under powers of the same year, to the Northwestern. It is notable for having been the first railway of any mark ever formed; for figuring as the parent and exemplar of all the principal railways in the world; for the stupendous difficulties, at once political, financial, and physical, which were encountered and overcome in the forming of it; and for the occasion which it gave for the exercise of the remarkable ingenuity and indomitable perseverance of its famous engineer, George Stephenson, originally a peasant, and eventually the inventor of the locomotive. Its capital, at amalgamation with the Grand Junction, was taken at £1,692,600.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a railway" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
| Administrative units: | Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Liverpool |
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