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Title: The Rainhill Trials: the greatest contest of industrial Britain and the birth of commercial rail / Christopher McGowan [Go to resource]
Description: In 1829 a crowd of spectators gathered to witness the most remarkable event of the Industrial Age. The Trials were a fiercely competitive tournament between several locomotives and the prize for the winner was the contract for the Liverpool and Manchester railway. Temporal: 2004 Source: Lincolnshire County Council Identifier: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... Go to resource More Like this...
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