Early Railways in South-west Lancashire |
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amalgamation Area at Edge Birmingham carriages celebrated engine Rocket Cheshire coal cogwheels connection at Warrington Crown Street passenger cylinders Darlington Railway depot EARLY ENGINEMEN EARLY RAILWAY Edge Hill EDGE VALE employed endless rope formation George Stephen George Stephenson Grand Junction Railway Henry Booth horse power introduced James Knox Killingworth Lancashire Lime Street Liverpool and Manchester locomotive engines locomotive power Manchester Railway miles Moorish Arch Newcastle-on-Tyne Newton Railway Nicholas Wood North Union Railway obtained a patent old Liverpool Original Passenger Station passenger traffic passenger trains present Earlestown Junction Preston rail-road Railway at Edge Railway in 1845 Railway was opened RAILWAYS IN SOUTH-WEST Rainhill retired short single-line tunnel Smithdown Lane Station was opened stationary engine Stockton and Darlington Street passenger station Trevithick Tunnel rope Victoria Tunnel W. H. WILLIAMS Wapping Tunnel Warrington and Newton Waterloo Tunnel Wavertree Bridge Wavertree Hall Wavertree Lane Station Wavertree Park Wigan wooden sleepers yards
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Page 2 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 10 - I have met my death,' which unhappily proved too true, for he expired that same evening in the neighbouring parsonage of Eccles. It was cited at the time as a remarkable fact, that the 'Northumbrian' engine conveyed the wounded body of the unfortunate gentleman a distance of about fifteen miles in twenty-five minutes, or at the rate of thirty-six miles an hour. This incredible speed burst upon the world with the effect of a new and unlooked-for phenomenon.
Page 5 - Stephenson's urgent request Mr. Pease had a clause inserted, taking power to work the railway by means of Locomotive Engines, and to employ them for the haulage of passengers as well as of merchandise * ; and Mr.
Page 2 - ... Shropshire, where cast-iron was indisputably first applied to the construction of bridges, and, according to the information which I have been able to obtain, it was here also that Rail-ways of that material were first constructed. It appears; from the books of this extensive and long-established Company, that between five and six tons of rails were cast on the 13th of November, 1767, as an experiment, on the suggestion of Mr. Reynolds, one of the partners.
Page 5 - Stephenson's locomotives worked on the line from 1825 to 1850. Although Parliamentary power had been obtained for the conveyance of passengers by locomotive engines, it was not brought into use for some five or six years ; in fact not until after the Liverpool and Manchester Company had established passenger trains in September, 1830. Until this latter period the Stockton and Darlington Company sublet the passenger traffic first to Pickersgill and Harland, who employed horse power for the purpose,...
Page 2 - the making and use of rail-roads and corves were the first of my inventions, and were introduced at the Sheffield Colliery about twenty-one years ago." Throughout the book, he used the words "waggon ways" or "Newcastle roads" for wooden railways to accommodate flanged-wheeled vehicles, including a line at Froghill in Staffordshire, which had its wooden rail surfaced by cast-iron 1 1 in.
Page 2 - ... traffic; and these, by the indefatigable enterprising genius of Brindley and other eminent engineers, were carried to every quarter of the country. Hence, the attention of all scientific men being absorbed in another species of conveyance, rail-roads had little attention, so that a long period intervened after the introduction of wooden railways before the application of any other material. The first indisputable evidence we have of iron railways comes from a statement of R. Stevenson of Edinburgh,...