After a couple of false starts with the route ... looking back this new system of transport must have been quite amazing when you had never travelled faster than walking pace, or by horse and/or ...

Linking Liverpool and Manchester by railway would not be easy ... In 1830 the line opened and a new age of locomotion had begun. This clip is from the series Locomotion: Dan Snow's History ...

The map below shows the location of Liverpool and Manchester. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance ...

It also created a low cost transport route for raw materials between these two growing industrial centres. Raw textiles arriving at the port of Liverpool could now be moved cheaply to the cloth mills ...