[otd] 15th September 1830 - Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

[otd] 15th September 1830 - Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Re: [otd] 15th September 1830 - Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Posted by Oxonhutch at 10:10, 15th September 2026

Timetable, fares, terms and conditions some six months later ...

[otd] 15th September 1830 - Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Posted by grahame at 06:56, 15th September 2026

The opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was a chapter of things going wrong - very wrong indeed, and far more so than we see to this day ... see the description on Wikipedia that reports locomotive failures, people getting off trains between stations (and sadly dying as a results of then being hit by a train), hostile crowds of people, disruptive passengers (refusing to detrain), and trains being there and in working order but not able to run the planned service (facing the wrong way).

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