[Box of folded maps re Liverpool and Manchester Railway]

Made:
1824-1830

[Set of maps (7) re Liverpool and Manchester Railway. All items folded in box. Box bears holograph signature 'Geo. Stephenson'. See below for individual items (of which listing is available)]

[Map] A Plan and Section of an intended Railway or Tram-road From Liverpool to Manchester in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Surveyed by George Stephenson, Engineer. 1824 Nov 20. [This line failed to get Parliamentary sanction. Coloured; published by J. & A. Walker, London & Liverpool. Scale 1" : 1m.]

A Plan and Section of an intended Railway or Tram-road From Liverpool to Manchester ...

1824
[Map] A Plan and Section of the Railway From Liverpool to Manchester, in the County Palatine of Lancaster [i.e. as sanctioned]. 1829. [Coloured; published by J. & A. Walker, London & Liverpool. Scale 1" : 1m.]

A Plan and Section of the Railway From Liverpool to Manchester ...

1829
[Map] Plan and Section of an Intended Branch Railway from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in Roby to the Regent's Road in Liverpool and of another Branch therefrom terminating near to the Borough Gaol in Liverpool all in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Geo: Stephenson, Engineer. Surveyed under the direction of Geo. Stephenson, Esqr. by Joseph Locke, Civil Engineer. 1830 Nov 25. [Published by R. Martin, High Holborn. Bears name] J. Bennison, Surveyor. [Follows much the same route as the original 1824 plan. This scheme was abandoned. Scale 1" : 1/4m.

Plan and Section of an Intended Branch Railway from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in Roby to the Regent's Road in Liverpool and of another Branch therefrom ....

1830
[Map] Plan and Section of the alterations proposed in the Line [between Rainhill and Culcheth townships] of the Railway from Liverpool to Manchester in the county Palatine of Lancaster. [nd. Coloured; Shows 'Parliamentary line' and shorter revised route. Scale 1" : 3/4m.]

Plan and Section of the alterations proposed in the Line [between Rainhill and Culcheth townships] of the Railway from Liverpool to Manchester

nd.
[Map] Plan & Section of the alteration proposed in the Line of Railway from Liverpool to Manchester in the County Palatine of Lancaster [i.e. at the Manchester terminus. nd. This was an improvement on the original plan and was adopted. Scale 1" : 176yds.]

Plan & Section of the alteration proposed in the Line of Railway from Liverpool to Manchester

nd.
[Map showing 'Proposed Leeds & Liverpool Railway' (west of Manchester - this proposal was abandoned); 'Former Line from which the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company were driven by Opposition in 1825' (i.e. the 1824 proposal); 'Present Liverpool and Manchester Railway' (i.e. the 1829 'Parliamentary line'). nd. Scale 1" : 2m.]

Proposed Leeds & Liverpool Railway; Former Line from which the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company were driven by Opposition in 1825; Present Liverpool and Manchester Railway

nd.
[Map] Plan Shewing the Mode of effecting the Junction of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with such other Railways, as branch from the North side thereof. [A poor arrangement, not used, so far as is known]

Plan Shewing the Mode of effecting the Junction of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with such other Railways, as branch from the North side thereof

nd.

Details

Category:
Railway Maps & Plans
Object Number:
1945-88
Measurements:
: 265 x 155 mm
type:
maps
credit:
Grafton and Co.

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