The official opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway took place on 15th September 1830. The stopping place in Rainhill was originally called Kendricks Cross Station and like most other stops of the time was without platforms or waiting rooms. It was initially situated opposite where the old signal box now stands. The current platforms […]
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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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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first successful passenger carrying railway in the world, was begun in 1826. Routed around the estates of the Earls of Sefton and Derby, the line crossed the Liverpool – Warrington turnpike road at Kendrick’s Cross, in the centre of today’s Rainhill Village. The oblique angle at which the line
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