The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens

Assembled from 38 blocks · 1 evidence · 39 related

1. Story
2. The first railway worked wholly by steam locomotives, carrying passengers and goods to a timetable on a double track between the cotton port and the cotton city. On the opening day the MP William Huskisson was struck by a locomotive at Parkside and died of his injuries, so the technology's promise and its danger reached the newspapers together.
3. Knowledge
4. The British canal network
5. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
6. Manchester
7. Liverpool
8. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
9. Connections
10. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
11. Liverpool
12. Manchester
13. The British canal network
14. Manchester
15. The British railway network
16. The main-line steam locomotive
17. The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction
18. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
19. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
20. Raw cotton
21. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
22. The census records an urban majority
23. The Bridgewater Canal
24. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
25. The steam engine
26. Nineteenth-century British urbanisation
27. Birmingham
28. The Bridgewater Canal opens from Worsley into Manchester
29. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
30. Chadwick reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population
31. The census records an urban majority
32. Coal
33. The Bridgewater Canal
34. The British railway network
35. The Bridgewater Canal opens from Worsley into Manchester
36. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
37. Evidence
38. Supports the identity, builder and date of the locomotive that won the Rainhill trials, and by extension the decision of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to adopt locomotive rather than cable haulage. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; the collection record was not opened in this session and the surviving object's current display location is not asserted here.