The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction

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1. Story
2. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway's directors had not decided whether to work the line with locomotives or with stationary engines hauling on cables, and ran a public competition on a level stretch at Rainhill to find out. Robert Stephenson's Rocket, with a multi-tubular boiler and a blastpipe sharpening the draught, completed the trials and won. The decision to buy locomotives rather than cable haulage shaped every railway built afterwards.
3. Knowledge
4. The British railway network
5. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
6. The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction
7. The main-line steam locomotive
8. Connections
9. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
10. The British railway network
11. The main-line steam locomotive
12. Manchester
13. The British railway network
14. The main-line steam locomotive
15. The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction
16. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
17. Puddling and rolling
18. The British canal network
19. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
20. The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens
21. The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction
22. The Great Exhibition
23. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
24. The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction
25. Trans-Siberian Railway
26. Ruling gradient
27. Coal
28. The through sleeping car
29. Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
30. Evidence
31. 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.