Collection

Aquatinted illustration - Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Made:
1831
maker:
Shaw, Isaac (junior)
Copy of Aquatinted illustration of the locomotive 'Jupiter' Aquatinted illustration of the locomotive 'Jupiter' pulling
Copy of Aquatinted illustration of the locomotive 'Jupiter' Aquatinted illustration of the locomotive 'Jupiter' pulling

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Copy of Aquatinted illustration of the locomotive 'Jupiter'
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Aquatinted illustration of the locomotive 'Jupiter' pulling
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Aquatinted illustration of the locomotive 'Jupiter' pulling carriages, entitled 'Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway'.

It was not only people that trains carried. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the first to transport the mail. The train transported letters much faster. Behind the passengers with their piled-up luggage is a mailcoach.

Details

Extent:
250
620
Identifier:
YMS0608
Access:
Open access.
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