Aquatinted illustration - View of the Railway across Chat Moss
- Made:
- 1831
- part of archive:
- Collection of engravings, photographs and prints relating to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
- maker:
- Pyall, Henry and Ackermann, Rudolph
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Plate 5 of a series of aquatints of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, titled 'View of the Railway acorss Chat Moss'. It was engraved by Henry Pyall, after an image by Thomas Talbot Bury, and was published by R. Ackermann, London, 1831.
"No engineer in his senses would go through Chat Moss." Francis Giles, 1825. But that’s exactly what George Stephenson did. He decided to ‘float’ the railway across the Chat Moss peat bog. Workers cut drainage ditches, then sank layers of woven wooden panels into the soft ground. This made the land firm enough to lay the tracks on.
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- Identifier:
- YA1983.9/4/5
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