Rail200: Liverpool and Manchester Railway-Inter City 1830

An account and contemporary documents of the first modern railway. Published by the Rotary Club of Prescot 1980 as a celebration of documents with a 7 page introduction and short reading list. There are 19 documents including: the cost of the railway, the Line of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway, section of the line, Olive Mount, Rainhill Bridge, Viaduct over Sankey Canal, Rainhill, Competition. Locomotives used on the railway, rules and regulations observed by the workmen and others.  In a yellow document folder which is complete but worn around the edges.