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  • Title
    Aquatinted illustration - Rainhill Bridge
  • Reference
    YA1983.9/4/12
  • Production date
    1831 - 1831
  • Creator
    • Pyall, HenryBiography
    • Ackermann, RudolphBiography
  • Scope and Content
    Plate 12 of a series of aquatints of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, titled 'Rainhill Bridge'. It was engraved by Henry Pyall, after an image by Thomas Talbot Bury, and was published by R. Ackermann, London, 1831. A great competition took place on the railway at Rainhill, near Liverpool, in 1829. The judges had to decide whether locomotives were reliable enough to pull passenger trains. If not, stationary engines and ropes would be used. Robert Stephenson’s Rocket won the day for locomotives and changed the course of railway history.
  • Level of description
    ITEM
  • Repository name
    Science and Industry Museum
  • Associated people and organisations
    • Liverpool & Manchester Railway CoBiography
    • Bury, Thomas TalbotBiography
  • Subject
  • Conditions governing access
    Open access.
  • Conditions governing Reproduction
    Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions.