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| Keywords: Entrance of the Railway at Edge Hill, from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831 - artfinder 122456.jpg The Tunnel from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1831 - artfinder 267574 jpg Excavation of Olive Mount from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1831 - artfinder 76057 jpg Artwork Creator S G Hughes en The original w Edge Hill railway station Edge Hill station opened in 1830 by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in Liverpool looking west <p>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 railway station 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 engine s 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 1833 aquatint object history exhibition history credit line The original watercolour picture by T T Bury is in the page http //media artfinder com/works/r/bal/6/5/4/122456_full_1024x826 jpg image PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT 1831 02b Bury's Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1831 02b Engravings by S G Hughes Engravings after pictures by Thomas Talbot Bury Edge Hill cutting Wapping Tunnel Liverpool Edge Hill first railway station | ||||
