'The Tunnel', 1831. Artist: Henry Pyall

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'The Tunnel', 1831. The world's first passenger railway, the Liverpool and Manchester opened on 15 September 1830. Its principal engineer was George Stephenson (1781-1848). From Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, by TT Bury.

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