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	Industrial Revolution: 11 to 14 years
		The Rainhill Trials: In October 1829 the directors of the soon to be completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway held a competition to find the most appropriate locomotive to use on their railway.
		UK Heritage Railways: The primary purpose of this website is to provide a guide to the entire heritage railway scene in the UK, including details of special events and operating days for all operating steam railways.
		However, there is also a comprehensive glossary (over 900 entries) of railway terms, names and abbreviations; pages of diagrams and explanations of the components of steam locomotives and their controls; and a Websites Database with links to over 400 railway related websites (including a category for historical material).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVhistoryIR2.htm

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
		Immediately adjoining the station used to stand the Exchange Station, which boasted the longest passenger platform in the world - but - severely damaged by wartime bombings, it was closed in 1969, and now survives largely as an unprepossessing carpark opposite the Cathedral.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
		Immediately adjoining the station used to stand the Exchange Station, which boasted the longest passenger platform in the world - but - severely damaged by wartime bombings, it was closed in 1969, and now survives largely as an unprepossessing carpark opposite the Cathedral.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1107 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
		Immediately adjoining the station used to stand the Exchange Station, which boasted the longest passenger platform in the world - but - severely damaged by wartime bombings, it was closed in 1969, and now survives largely as an unprepossessing carpark opposite the Cathedral.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1107 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
		Nowadays, largely serving destinations north and east of Manchester, it is the main terminus for the new Nynex Arena, and a major interface where the Metrolink train joins the streets of Manchester as an urban tramway.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1107 words)

	To Manchester Station
		Manchester Railway Stations including Piccadilly Rail Station, Victoria Station whose sheds were designed by George Stephenson, Liverpool Road Station where Stephenson's Rocket took part in the Rainhill Trials and the G-Mex Centre, formerly...
		Liverpool Road Station, Manchester Liverpool Road Station, Manchester With no precedents to draw on, the Manchester terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway is almost domestic in scale.
		Liverpool Road Station, Manchester Liverpool Road Station, Manchester The station formed the terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's oldest passenger railway.
	www.cheap-london-theatre-breaks.co.uk /lonth/to_manchester_station.html (1107 words)

	BBC - Liverpool Local History - Lime Street Station - Rainhill Trials
		Image courtesy of The Rainhill Railway and Heritage Society.
		The railway company's chief engineer Mr George Stephenson who has supervised the building of the three-quarters of a million pound line was on the scene at dawn to direct the operations.
		Carriages started from early this morning trying to get through the crowded streets because all the roads have been jammed with traffic because of the interest which has been generated by this new great iron road which is linking the two great cities of the North West, Liverpool and Manchester.
	www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/localhistory/journey/lime_street/station/rainhill_trials.shtml (878 words)

	Merseyworld : Rainhill Parish Council
		At the rear of Rainhill Library is a railway coach which houses a museum containing many items of railway history that commemorate the Rainhill Trials of 1829 and the 150th Anniversary Celebrations held in 1979/80.
		In 1829 Rainhill was the venue for the famous locomotive trials that would decide the type of engine which would operate on the new passenger railway.
		The original station at Rainhill was called Kendrick's Cross Station after the medieval cross that now stands on the corner of Victoria Street but was originally located on the corner of View Road and Warrington Road.
	rainhill.merseyside.org /rhistory.htm (237 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
		Immediately adjoining the station used to stand the Exchange Station, which boasted the longest passenger platform in the world - but - severely damaged by wartime bombings, it was closed in 1969, and now survives largely as an unprepossessing carpark opposite the Cathedral.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1107 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
		Immediately adjoining the station used to stand the Exchange Station, which boasted the longest passenger platform in the world - but - severely damaged by wartime bombings, it was closed in 1969, and now survives largely as an unprepossessing carpark opposite the Cathedral.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1107 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
		Immediately adjoining the station used to stand the Exchange Station, which boasted the longest passenger platform in the world - but - severely damaged by wartime bombings, it was closed in 1969, and now survives largely as an unprepossessing carpark opposite the Cathedral.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1107 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
		Immediately adjoining the station used to stand the Exchange Station, which boasted the longest passenger platform in the world - but - severely damaged by wartime bombings, it was closed in 1969, and now survives largely as an unprepossessing carpark opposite the Cathedral.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1107 words)

	Fire Stations & Railway Stations in Manchester
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The present building replaced an earlier Victorian station which had been built by the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway Company in 1849 on a viaduct running across Oxford Road over an area known then as "Little Ireland".
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /buildings/fire&railways.html (938 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was the terminus of the Manchester and Birmingham railway line, and the old station dated from 1842.
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The Liverpool and Manchester Railway came to the city when Joseph Cowlishaw, a Manchester corn merchant, Joseph Saunders, also a corn merchant, from Liverpool, and a wealthy estate agent and surveyor named William James formed a company, surveyed the likely route and proposed the building of the railway line.
	raq2168.uk2.net /transport/rail-stations.html (1138 words)

	Carrog Station News
		Now, 22 years on and 173 years after the original Rainhill Trials, the Replicas are to re-stage the contest between Glyndyfrdwy and Carrog on the Llangollen Railway from 29
		During those Trials, the Directors of the first inter-city railway, the Liverpool and Manchester, sought to decide the most efficient motive power by staging a contest between rival locomotive builders.
		Re-staging of Rainhill Trials to take place between Glyndyfrdwy and Carrog from 29
	carrogstation.members.beeb.net /Rainhilltrials.htm (930 words)

	BBC - Liverpool Local History - Lime Street Station - Rainhill Trials
		Image courtesy of The Rainhill Railway and Heritage Society.
		The railway company's chief engineer Mr George Stephenson who has supervised the building of the three-quarters of a million pound line was on the scene at dawn to direct the operations.
		And the other locomotive engine to look out for is the new one, and that’s Northumbrian, and that is the locomotive engine which will be pulling the Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington when he arrives just a little bit later this morning.
	www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/localhistory/journey/lime_street/station/rainhill_trials.shtml (878 words)

	St.Helens Council
		The Trials exhibition is staged in a British Railways Mark 1 carriage in the grounds of St. Helens Council’s Rainhill Library.
		More than 400 passengers climbed on board The Two Roses express steam train at Liverpool Lime Street calling at Rainhill station en route to Manchester and on to York.
		Rainhill was the site of the 1829 Rainhill Trials won by George Stephenson and his Rocket.
	www.sthelens.gov.uk /website/cbrief.nsf/MainNews/FA894D31FD3F25EB802570810055B4C3?opendocument (282 words)

	Carrog Station - Gallery - Rainhill
		The Rainhill Trials of 1829 were re-enacted in October 2002, for a BBC “Timewatch” Series.
		During those original Trials, the Directors of the first inter-city railway, the Liverpool and Manchester, sought to decide the most efficient motive power by staging a contest between rival locomotive builders.
		Link to the BBC website to find out more about the original Rainhill Trials
	carrogstation.members.beeb.net /rainhillpics.htm (135 words)

	Rainhill 1980
		The Rainhill Trials were instigated by the railway company to confirm the capability of steam engines for rail traction.
		Quite near the station, a welcome from Rainhill Traders.
		Rocket model in a reconstruction of the Rainhill trials in the exhibition.
	www.colinfparsons.btinternet.co.uk /twinp/colhome/edgehill/Rainhill.htm (192 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
		Nowadays, largely serving destinations north and east of Manchester, it is the main terminus for the new Nynex Arena, and a major interface where the Metrolink train joins the streets of Manchester as an urban tramway.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1107 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
		Most rail passengers arriving at Manchester will discover that Piccadilly Station is their first taste of the city of Manchester.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1107 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
		Its original iron sheds with their decorative cast iron columns was built in the 1880s, as part of the former London Road Station, as the road from which you enter the Station Approach is the old London Road.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1107 words)

	Fire Stations & Railway Stations in Manchester
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The present building replaced an earlier Victorian station which had been built by the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway Company in 1849 on a viaduct running across Oxford Road over an area known then as "Little Ireland".
		The conversion of the old Central Station into its present form is typical of the kind of urban renewal and inner city transformations which the City of Manchester Council and the Central Manchester Development Corporation have undertaken over the past decade, much to their credit and to the approval of the citizens of Manchester.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /buildings/fire&railways.html (938 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		Most rail passengers arriving at Manchester will discover that Piccadilly Station is their first taste of the city of Manchester.
		Further redevelopment of Victoria Station took place in 1992 on the basis of a £35 million grant to upgrade the old station and to link it to the newly constructed Nynex Arena (now the Manchester Evening News Arena) adjacent to it on Hunts bank.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1107 words)

	Manchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Manchester holds a pivotal position in railway history as a birthplace of passenger rail travel on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which opened in 1830 after the famous Rainhill Trials chose Stephenson's Rocket to pull the trains.
		Manchester's principal bus station mainly for services on the south side of the city is at Piccadilly Gardens, which is also served by Metrolink and a short walk from the city's main train station, Piccadilly.
		Shudehill Bus/Metrolink Interchange caters for routes mainly on the north side of the city and is within walking distance of the Victoria station.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manchester (7585 words)

	NEH 2000 Summer Seminar - Site Visit #2
		The museum itself, which is located in a complex of 5 large historic buildings including 2 (a station building and a vast warehouse,) dating from the earliest period of railway history in 1830, displays a wealth of artefacts relating to developments in science and technology that underpinned industrialisation.
		The famous Rainhill Trials of the previous October had proved the Stephensons' Rocket to be the best locomotive, and the inauguration of the world's first passenger steam-railway was an occasion that ushered in a new era of transport history.
		The museum illustrates themes such as trade unionism, women's rights and the co-operative movement and a particularly eye-catching part of the display is examples of the richly ornamental banners associated with the different trade unions.
	www.umassd.edu /ir/site2f.html (3162 words)

	Timothy Hackworth Victorian & Railway Museum-Sans Pareil
		"Sans Pareil" being removed to the Ironbridge Power Station, during 2000, for a full refit, courtesy of the Friends of Trevithick.
		The story of "Sans Pareil" and the Rainhill Trials is legend, however if you do not know it you will find it on the pages of The Timothy Hackworth Story - Rainhill Trials
		The original can be seen on display at the National Railway Museum at York.
	www.railcentre.co.uk /museum/sanspareil.htm (142 words)

	Manchester Railway Stations
		The station building and the warehouse opposite date from the earliest days of railway history.
		It was to this station that the Rainhill Trials to choose a locomotive to pull passenger coaches between Liverpool and Manchester arrived.
		The rail link, together with the canal system, was instrumental in the growth of Manchester's industrial base in the 19th century.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/rail-stations.html (1107 words)

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