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  • Title
    Aquatinted illustration - Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
  • Reference
    YMS0608
  • Production date
    1831 - 1831
  • Creator
    • Shaw, Isaac (junior)Biography
  • Scope and Content
    Aquatinted illustration of the locomotive 'Jupiter' pulling carriages, entitled 'Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway'. It was not only people that trains carried. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the first to transport the mail. The train transported letters much faster. Behind the passengers with their piled-up luggage is a mailcoach.
  • Archival history
    Purchased from Phillips Auctioneers, date unknown.
  • Level of description
    ITEM
  • Repository name
    Science and Industry Museum
  • Associated people and organisations
    • Liverpool & Manchester Railway CoBiography
  • 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.
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