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Liverpool & Manchester Railway Trust Profile picture
Liverpool & Manchester Railway Trust
@LMRailway
An organisation set-up to protect original features of and promote the first Inter-City railway in the world between Liverpool and Manchester.
Aug 25, 2022 • 28 tweets • 10 min read
Liverpool’s most important historic site receives Scheduled Monument recognition and protection.
“It is one of the most important historic sites in world history” proclaims historian Dan Snow. So why doesn’t anyone in Liverpool know about it? The Edge Hill Engine Station 2018. Photograph by Chris Iles Hidden away in a quiet corner of Edge Hill in Liverpool is the original station complex of the world’s first modern railway. Opened in 1830, this section of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was superseded six years later by Lime Street Station. The Edge Hill Engine Station in 2012 Photograph by Chris Ile
Sep 15, 2019 • 31 tweets • 12 min read
On this day 189 years ago, it had rained overnight, and this had caused a bit of concern to the staff and management of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, as they had not done much testing of the locomotives in the wet, but by morning it had cleared up and the sun was out. Image All along the 31 mile line between Liverpool and Manchester had seen an upsurge in visitors staying in hotels and by ten in the morning people where stood three deep at any point that the new railway line was visible, all the bridges were packed. Image