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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An interesting painting is being auctioned in Liverpool next week. 'Entrance to Lime Street Station, Liverpool, 1962' auctions.adampartridge.co.uk/auction/lot/...

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am mulling over the probable process of historically archiving newspapers. I am formulating a hypothesis that only the "late editions" of newspapers were ever archived, I base this on seeing story that correct previous erroneous stories, but I can never find the initial erroneous version anywhere.

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vrsimility.bsky.social @vrsimility.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Heswall Concert Band getting the party started!

Details of a concert to celebrate the start of construction of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Just looking at this old'ish photo of the Parkside and the Huskisson Monument, and in the background, appears to be the old Parkside II and Wigan Junction station building. It doesn't seem that long ago, because that certainly looks like a yellow-nosed diesel passing it.

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Ed Farrell @edfarrell.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Wapping goods station off park Lane, 1835. Queens dock and the vibrant, diverse 'sailortown' behind. The station is in a cutting to access the tunnel - top left- from to Edge Hill 1 mile plus away. No locomotives in the town; trains ran by gravity to the dock - cable (steam engine driven) back.

A painting showing an aeriel view of Wapping goods station, Liverpool, as it would have looked in 1835. Showing the railway, trains, station buildings, a part of Queens dock (with sailing boats) many warehouses, horses and carts and a busy surrounding port town.

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Williamson's Tunnels @fowt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We recently had a visit from BBC Radio Merseyside. Celebrating the upcoming 30th Anivarssary of FoWT. You can listen online now... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Hidden Merseyside - Keeping Williamson’s Tunnels alive for 30 years - BBC Sounds

Celebrating 30 years uncovering and preserving Liverpool’s mysterious Williamson Tunnels.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Back in 2018, we visited Liverpool Museum's Large Item Collection, inspecting the replica 1st & 2nd class carriages built for the 1930 centenary celebrations in Wavertree Playground. In total, there were three of each class. The other four carriages are in the National Railway Museum's collection.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We were looking for this underwhelming structure in Rainhill, but couldn't find it. Apparently, it has been removed. These are images by our own Eric Shenton from 2017. The brass band around the edge had all but lost its detail at that point. Anyone got any photos from when it was new?

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Final stop of the day was Mill Lane to enjoy the splendour of the Olive Mount cutting. Originally only 20' wide in 1830 it was repeatedly widened in the LNWR days for more tracks.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Our second to last stop of the day was to Court Hey Park, where a collection of original sleeper blocks have been repurposed into curbing. Most face the wrong way, but several do show the markings of the rail chairs.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

More of the same for our 14th stop. Case's Bridge No.2, which gives access to the very modern suspension bridge over the M62

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Unlucky 13th spot is the Childwall Lane Bridge. Another of the extended 16' wide tunnels through the Roby embankment. This went from 66' long to around 100' in the 1870s

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

12 stop is the unusual Pilch Lane bridge, which, when extended for four-track running, didn't just extend the bridge/tunnel, but made the new stretch wider.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The shock of the day was our 11th stop. Ball's Bridge. Because it is Grade II listed as an original bridge, but it isn't. It is post 1840, probably 1870, since it was originally built before Archway Road existed and was similar to many of the local 12' wide bridges built into the Roby embankment.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Our 10th stop was the remains of the winding engine, which was mostly demolished for the new Stone Lane bridge in the 1960s. Only the chimney base remains.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Our 9th stop along the line was to see the partial remains of the original bridge embedded into the new bridge on Old Lane in Rainhill

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Picking up on our tour along the line on Tuesday. We ended for lunch in Sutton, Next is Rainhill. The milestone marker is Grade II listed, claiming to be 1829. The other photos show how the skew bridge was extended for modern traffic

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

We were in the Edge Hill cutting again today, helping @networkrail.bsky.social plan to LIDAR scan the cutting.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Last location before lunch was the mighty impressive Sutton Bridge

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Next up is St. Helens Junction Station, and its very eroded window frames.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Next up is 2 Laurel Street in St. Helens, which is a circa 1830 hotel next to St. Helens Junction Station. Listed, but badly vandalised.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The second worse condition bridge we have seen along the line Legh's Cattle Archway. The worst is Legh's Brick Arch... Similar name, but just outside Manchester.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We are out and about today taking photos of structures along the line. First stop...

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

A Spanish engraving of Isaac Shaw's famous view of opening day goes under the hammer in Berlin at the end of the month. The expected hammer price is 300€ www.jvv-berlin.de/en/auktionen...

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The current head-scratcher at Trust Towers is the mystery of Whiston Bridge No. 1. The 1850 OS map shows the road as a level crossing. (Notice the tracks crossing the roadway). Yet Henry Booth's account listed the location as a rather solid bridge.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Another tablet on the original Platform 1. @chrisiles-co-uk.bsky.social feet for scale and context

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

On Platform 5 at Lime Street. Can't prove that this York Stone is 1836 original or not... The lengths @chrisiles-co-uk.bsky.social goes to to get a good photo of it...

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

We are out and about today doing some "mop up" photography for the Rocket 200 website. Delighted to see the fencing and the budjula have all gone from Huskisson's Mausoleum. Well done LCC.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Since it is #InternationalWomensDay we like to raise a glass to renowned actress Franny Kemble. Who, on the 25th August 1830, climbed on board a locomotive with George Stephenson and took a trip out to the Sankey Viaduct and was totally enthralled. Read her famed account here 1drv.ms/b/c/b0c945eb...

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ℂ𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤 𝕀𝕝𝕖𝕤 🅿🅷🅾🆃🅾🅶🆁🅰🅿🅷🆈 @chrisiles-co-uk.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Beyond Liverpool Lime Street's platforms, up at street level, is an installation celebrating the early Railway & it’s engineers Designed to represent the Railway line below your feet. Consisting of four half wheels, each in recognition of important people, linked to L&MR & early LNWR 🧵🔽

Installation, celebrating the early Railway and it’s engineers.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

November 1826, it was discovered that the Wapping Tunnel would pass under houses by Great George Square, and it was decided to redirect the tunnel to avoid them. The tunnel goes under many houses along its length, so what was so special about these large and expensive houses of Great George Square?

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

When you think about contemporary images of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the most recognisable are a collection of images by Thomas Talbot [T.T.] Bury. Initially, six plates were published in 1831, then an expanded 2nd edition (12 plates)(1832) and 3rd edition (15 plates)(1833).

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Sorry to go down the rabbit hole a bit with this... Darron Keeling's reply to our original Facebook post really planted a seed. So, the theory is that the door on the left was raised when the platform was raised, while the one on the right was abandoned, bricked up and left unaltered.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Latest slide added to the collection. The stunning Duchess of Hamilton, taken at Bold Colliery in the evening sun during the Rocket 150 event. She now has her fancy streamlining bodywork refitted and sits alongside Mallard at the NRM in York.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

We are pondering the meaning of the Hobbit doorway at Rainhill Station. The two existing theories are a) the doorway was from when the platform was much lower b) it was a recess for a water fountain. My favourite theory is that the door next to it was the same height, but rose with the platform.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Just a pretty photo of the back of the Huskisson Monument at Parkside. It desperately needs restoring. Hopefully, something can be done before the 200th

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I went on a scavenge on Britain from Above and came away with this image of Wavertree Nook Bridge. I don't think it is original, as it looks metal, rather than the original Ashlar stone arch that vaulted from the rock walls of Olive Mount cutting. Also, an image of the real world location.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I have overlaid the 1831 map of Manchester onto a modern view to accurately line up the now gone Jones's Bridge No.3. There is no big revelation, since the now gone Church Street marries up with the truncated North Phoebe Street.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

We know that there were 1/4 mile markers along the length of the line, but according to the 1850 OS map, there were markers every 1/8th of a mile. The markers showing the distance from Liverpool, then the markers showing the distance from Manchester, roughly an eighth of a mile along the track.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Stay with me, this becomes on topic quite quickly 😜 A 2008 photo of the café in Otterspool Park, which sits on the site of Otterspool House, the home of John Moss. Liverpool banker, Slave owner and Deputy Chairman of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Help. I've had this image on my computer for a couple of years, and I've totally forgotten what station it is supposed to be. It was supposed to be a station on the L&MR, but no clue if that is true. Anyone got any ideas?

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust @lmrailway.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I have started looking into a property I didn't even know was a thing until this week. No. 2 Lionel Street in St. Helens. It sits across from St Helens Junction station and is dated to circa 1830, and was a public house/hotel. Grade II listed with a possible link to the railway. tinyurl.com/56mfekwu

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Ed Farrell @edfarrell.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

At the Manchester end of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. A sketch giving the context for the Liverpool Road terminus. Mid 1830s.

A sketch of Liverpool Road station Manchester as it would have looked in the 1830s. An aeriel view showing the railway crossing the bridge of the Irwell, factories, station buildings and warehouses.

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