The Trials were held by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, to find the best locomotive engine for a railway line that was being built to serve these two English cities. On the day of ...
The world's oldest surviving train station, Liverpool Road Station, stands as a proud testament to the dawn of the railway age in Manchester ... line that the famous locomotive, the Rocket ...
Linking Liverpool and Manchester by railway would not be easy; it would take huge amounts of money, a massive labour force, and a brilliant engineer. The engineer was George Stephenson.