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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 Biography
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.

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 Co Biography Biography
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.

Subject
Railway transport
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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