'Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway', 1831. Artist: Unknown


'Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway', 1831. Top: goods train drawn by the locomotive 'Liverpool'. Bottom: cattle train drawn by the locomotive 'Fury'. The world's first passenger railway, the Liverpool and Manchester opened on 15 September 1830. Its principal engineer was George Stephenson (1781-1848).


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Photo credit: © Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images / Alamy / Afripics
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