The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was first proposed by William James and Joseph Sanders in 1821. In 1826 George Stephenson was appointed chief engineer. The company originally intended to use fixed locomotives to pull freight trains between Liverpool and Manchester, but following the Rainhill Trial competition of 6 October 1829, locomotives in the style of Stephenson's Rocket were commissioned. The company opened the line between Liverpool and Manchester on 15 September 1830. The first passengers travelled along the line two days later and goods on 1 December. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was absorbed into the Grand Junction Railway on 8 August 1845.

Established by John Clowes Grundy and Charles Fox in 1827. Premises at 25 St Ann's Square (1828) and 15 Exchange Street (1830). The company was in the Manchester Guardian in April 1827 as being carvers and gilders, colourmen to artists, printsellers and opticians. Grundy & Fox sold, among other things, Ackermann’s and Newman’s superfine watercolours, Turnbull’s London drawing boards, Whatman’s superior drawing paper, Brookman & Langdon’s drawing pencils, and Brown’s bladder colours. And advert in Pigot’s General Directory of Manchester and Salford for 1829 mentions a service for cleaning, lining and restoring pictures. Grundy & Fox were appointed carvers and gilders to George IV at Manchester in 1829. The company was dissolved in 1831, with Charles Fox going on to trade independently as an artists’ colourman and Grundy being appointed as carver, gilder and print seller to William IV.

Isaac Shaw junior was an engraver working in Liverpool in the 1830s. He worked with Ackermann & Co in 1833 to produce a series of coloured prints of locomotives travelling on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.