Entrance_of_the_Railway_at_Edge_Hill,_from_Bury's_Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway,_1831_-_artfinder_122456.jpg
Summary
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| Title |
Entrance of the Railway at Edge Hill, Liverpool
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| Description |
English:
The original
Edge Hill
station opened in 1830 by the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway
in Liverpool, looking west.
The station was situated in a deep cutting. The double tunnel in the centre of the picture (the Wapping tunnel ) goes down to the Wapping dock on the waterfront. The tunnel to the right goes up to the original passenger terminus at Crown street . The entrance to the left went only to a store, created for symmetry; later a double tunnel curving up to Crown Street over the Wapping tunnel was created here in the 1840s. The two large chimneys, nicknamed the "Pillars of Hercules", took the smoke from two stationary engines that were used to haul wagons back up from the docks in a cable railway arrangement, as the incline was too steep for the earliest locomotives. Between the two central tracks can be seen the endless rope that the wagons were attached to, to achieve this. |
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| Date | 1833 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | aquatint print | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
The original watercolour picture by T.T. Bury is in the
National Railway Museum
, object number
1977-5745
An earlier 1831 version of this print, engraved by H. Pyall, has the left hand chimney still in the process of construction. |
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| Source/Photographer |
T.T. Bury (1833 revised edition),
Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
. London: Ackermann & Co; plate 2.
This scan/photograph from the Stapleton Collection, via the Bridgeman Art Library ( STC 122456 ) and Artfinder.com ( description page , image ) |
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Licensing
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