Railway

150 Years of the Liverpool – Manchester Railway

8 February 20268 February 2026 Steven Dowd

St Peter, Newton-in-Makerfield Celebrates ‘Railway 150’ Contents Plan & Key to St.Peter’s ‘Railway 150’ Exhibition. 3 A Message from The Bishop of Liverpool. 5 A Message from Lord Lee of Newton. 6 A Message from The Vicar. 7 ‘Railway gravestone’ verse. 9 A brief history of St.Peter’s Church. 10 The story of the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, by Ian Singleton. (Manchester Grammar School). 16 Exhibition Plan & Key Floor plan of St Peter’s Church, Newton in Makerfield, showing numbered exhibition areas. Arrows indicate visitor flow direction, entering…

George & Robert Stephenson

19 April 201819 April 2018 Steven Dowd

THE LIFE OF George Stephenson and his son Robert Stephenson Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the railway locomotive. By Samual Smiles With Portraits and Numerous Illustrations. [iii] PREFACE. The present is a revised edition of the Life of George Stephenson and of his son Robert Stephenson, to which is prefixed a history of the Railway and the Locomotive in its earlier stages, uniform with the early history of the Steam-engine given in vol. iv. of “Lives of the Engineers” containing the memoirs of Boulton and…

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