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Colour print, Travelling on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1831, Plate I: A Train of First Class Carriages with the mail, hauled by "Jupiter". Plate II: A train of Second Class Carriages for outside passengers with three Third Class carriages behind, hauled by "North Star". Text:- "North Star built 1830 by R.Stephenson and Co., 11" Cylinders, 16"Stroke, 5ft.Driving wheel. "Jupiter" built 1831 by R. Stephenson and Co., 11"Cylinders, 16"Stroke, 5ft Driving wheel. The 1st and 2nd Class carriages were constructed after the style of three stage coach bodies combined to form one carriage. The Guard rode on the top of the front carriage and directed the Engine Driver, whilst the Royal Mail Man guarded the maia in the rear. G. Leeman Esq., Chairman of the North Eastern Railway speaking as Chairman of the First Railway Jubilee (Stockton & Darlington) held at Darlington 27th Sept. 1875, said, "I know nothing comparable in the History of Science to that grand triumphal march - for such it was - with which the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened". Printed by Raphael Tuck, copyrighted by M B Cotsworth, Holgate, York, 1894.

Travelling on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1894

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