MAKE A MEME View Large Image Taking in Water at Parkside, from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831 - artfinder 267572.jpg Rainhill Bridge from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1831 - artfinder 3408 jpg View of the Intersection Bridge from Bury's ...
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Keywords: Taking in Water at Parkside, from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831 - artfinder 267572.jpg Rainhill Bridge from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1831 - artfinder 3408 jpg View of the Intersection Bridge from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1832 - edgehill 2 jpg Artwork Creator Henry Pyall en The original station at Parkside on the w Liverpool and Manchester Railway about half way between Liverpool and Manchester where trains stopped to take on coke and water <br> It was here that the leading Liverpool M P and promoter of the railway William Huskisson was fatally injured on the Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway railway's opening day in September 1830 With other passengers Huskisson had alighted from the train and was talking to the Prime Minister through the window of his special carriage when the Rocket began bearing down on the party on the other track Huskisson tried to clamber into the Prime Minister's carriage but the door that he was trying to pull himself up by swung open and was struck by the oncoming locomotive Huskisson fell and his leg was crushed by the engine He died later that day <br>Parkside station was replaced in 1839 by a new station 350m to the east which itself closed in 1878 But its site is recorded by a memorial to Huskisson by the side of the line with a marble plaque close to the site of the accident 1831 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/2/7/5/267572_full_1024x830 jpg image PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT 1831 13 Bury's Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1831 13 Engravings by Henry Pyall Engravings after pictures by Thomas Talbot Bury Disused railway stations in Greater Manchester
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