In 1824, George Stephenson was appointed as Principal Engineer for the proposed new railway line to be built from Liverpool to Manchester. It was considered impossible to divert the existing turnpike road or to realign the route of the railway at the crossing point, so a bridge had to be constructed over the railway line […]
The famous Rainhill Trials took place along a level stretch of railway line 1 mile and 7 furlongs long, east of the Skew Bridge. A prize of £500 was offered to the successful locomotive completing a total run of 70 miles (the distance from Liverpool to Manchester and back) which entailed forty trips along the
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