Pioneer locomotive from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

The back of the photograph has the note:

Locomotive used on the construction of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, given to the late Isaac Wall Boulton, Ashton Under Lyme by one of Stevenson's assistants.

James Wall Boulton, Upton, Chester

Also pasted onto the back of the photograph is a newspaper cutting (with a copy of the above photograph) that states:

A Railway Pioneer

The photograph I published a few days ago of the first railway station and booking office of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway (sic) has inspired Mr. J. W. Boulton of Cheadle, to send me a photograph, which is reproduced above of the first loco that helped in the construction of the line from Ordsall Lane to Patricroft.

"This was given to my late father", writed Mr. Boulton, "by John Stannard, son of John Stannard, the resident engineer of this section of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and husband of John Strange Winter (the novelist)."

"This locomotive was the first to venture over the treacherous Chat Moss and I well remember making a journey over it 50 years ago. It was like being on a switchback railway."

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