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Issue 66 South Liverpool December 2012
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FESTIVE FARES by Stephen Guy
The Christmas period sees many people travelling to be with family and loved ones over the festive season. It was the invention of the railways that enabled large numbers to experience relatively cheap journeys. Lives were transformed
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as previously inaccessible places could be reached easily. Before engineer George Stephenson built the Liverpool to Manchester Railway, travel was slow and hazardous for the majority. Roads were vastly improved by a new type of road
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surface invented by John McAdam but they only benefitted relatively small numbers of people. McAdam was just 14 when he went to New York, later making a fortune in his uncle’s countinghouse (accountancy office). He was 27 when he returned to Britain and bought a country estate. Here he experimented with road construction resulting in macadamized roads named after him - tarmac was developed later by adding tar. From 1816 the new road surfaces began to transform travel. McAdam, who died in 1836, saw the
dawn of the railway era. On his roads coaches could reach around 15 mph, much less than the 36 mph pioneering steam loco Rocket. Travel would never be the same again. Liverpool’s first railway passenger station when the Manchester service opened was in Crown Street on the outskirts of the town (pictured). Travellers took a free horse-drawn bus to the station where they boarded the train hauled by a rope (operated by a stationery steam engine) through a tunnel to Edge Hill. The train was coupled to a locomotive
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before continuing its journey. This unsatisfactory arrangement lasted until 1836 when the tunnel to the new Lime Street station was completed. Crown Street Station was then closed. Construction of the Liverpool – Manchester Railway – using literally ground breaking techniques - cost the astonishing sum of £1 million but was a huge success.
The first public train leaving Liverpool on 16 September 1830 carried 130 passengers and completed the 31-mile journey in one hour and 50 minutes – this included two stops for fuel and water. Train fares matched the stage coaches from the start with a one-way ticket costing seven shillings (35p) for the best carriages. This was the same
paid by passengers travelling on top of a horse-drawn coach for the five-hour journey to Manchester in all weathers. • See the early locomotive Lion and the only-surviving L i v e r p o o l Overhead Railway carriage at the Museum of Liverpool, Pier Head, open 10 am to 5 pm every day, admission free.
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