Aquatinted illustration - Entrance of the Railway at Edge Hill, Liverpool
- Made:
- 1831
- part of archive:
- Collection of engravings, photographs and prints relating to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
- maker:
- Pyall, Henry and Ackermann, Rudolph
Plate 2 of a series of aquatints of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, titled 'Entrance of the Railway at Edge Hill, Liverpool'. It was engraved by Henry Pyall, after an image by Thomas Talbot Bury, and was published by R. Ackermann, London, 1831.
Cut deep into the ground, the railway split and entered two tunnels at Edge Hill on the outskirts of Liverpool. One led to the passenger station at Crown Street. Goods trains went down the larger central tunnel to the docks. The third arch was a store for locomotives.
Details
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- Identifier:
- YA1983.9/4/2
- Access:
- Open access.
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