Aquatinted illustration - Rainhill Bridge
- 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 12 of a series of aquatints of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, titled 'Rainhill Bridge'. It was engraved by Henry Pyall, after an image by Thomas Talbot Bury, and was published by R. Ackermann, London, 1831.
A great competition took place on the railway at Rainhill, near Liverpool, in 1829. The judges had to decide whether locomotives were reliable enough to pull passenger trains. If not, stationary engines and ropes would be used. Robert Stephenson’s Rocket won the day for locomotives and changed the course of railway history.
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- Identifier:
- YA1983.9/4/12
- Access:
- Open access.
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