Rare Books
Panorama of Manchester, and railway companion
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Southampton Manchester and Oxford Junction Railway
Manuscripts
Indenture of agreement establishing the railway, with subscribers' signatures.
Lot 432

Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. 1831
Visual Materials
Image of two eye-level side views of two passenger trains of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway depicted in 1831: the top panel contains a steam locomotive labeled "Jupiter" with a 2-2-0 wheel arrangement, tender, and set of enclosed passenger cars filled with travelers and luggage with a rocky landscape in the background; the lower panel contains a steam locomotive labeled "North Star" with a 2-2-0 wheel arrangement, tender with water barrel, and set of open passenger cars filled with passengers, with a green countryside in the background.
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