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Educational resource
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- The Rainhill Trials of October 1829.
- An eye witness account.
- William Huskisson, the first railway fatality.
- An eye witness account.
- Some historical background to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
- Taken from "Our Iron Roads", by Frederick S. Williams, and originally published in 1883.
- Some historical notes on the lives of George and Robert Stevenson.
- Also taken from "Our Iron Roads".
- Text of handbill from the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
- Announcing the opening arrangements for the S & D.
- Another handbill from the Stockton and Darlington Railway
- Announcing the continuation of the stagecoach "EXPERIMENT".
- A sad piece of early railway history.
- An epitaph from the parish churchyard at Harrow-on-the-Hill.
- Pioneer locomotive from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
- Given to the late Isaac Wall Boulton by one of Stevenson's assistants.
- Biographical note regarding William Howe.
- The inventor of the Stephenson's Reversing Link Motion.
- Historical perspective on the collapse of bridges.
- A chapter from the recent book "Bridges" by Judith Dupré.
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