Aquatinted illustration - Taking in water at Parkside
- 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 13 of a series of aquatints of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, titled 'Taking in water at Parkside'. It was engraved by Henry Pyall, after an image by Thomas Talbot Bury, and was published by R. Ackermann, London, 1831.
Trains could not travel from Liverpool to Manchester without stopping halfway to take on more water. Without water in the boiler the engine could not make the steam which powered the locomotive. Parkside was the site of a fatal collision on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. While the trains in the opening parade were stopped at Parkside to take on water, William Huskisson MP was struck by Stephenson's Rocket coming up the other track. He died later that day.
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- Identifier:
- YA1983.9/4/13
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