The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
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.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway · route · United Kingdom · not located
- Liverpool · city · United Kingdom
- Manchester · city · United Kingdom
- The British canal network · network · United Kingdom · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Stephenson's Rocket — collection record
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.
Science Museum Group · locomotive built 1829 · Partly verified
Science Museum Group collection record for the locomotive Rocket, built by Robert Stephenson and Company, 1829
Recorded on Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Related
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