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Rainhill Station Footbridge Steps
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 5 Mar 2013
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Footbridge at Rainhill Station
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 5 Mar 2013
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Footbridge, Rainhill railway station
Situated at the eastern end of the platforms.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 17 Jan 2014
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Rainhill, Victoria Street
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 5 Mar 2013
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Plinthed electric locomotive, Rainhill
Built by Hawthorn, Leslie in 1936. This loco worked at Kearsley Power station.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 24 May 1980
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Commercial Hotel, Station Road, Rainhill
Situated opposite the railway station, at the junction with Weaver Avenue.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 17 Jan 2014
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Along the platform, Rainhill railway station
The Manchester-bound platform, looking east.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 17 Jan 2014
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Rainhill Station
Looking west (towards Liverpool) from the passenger footbridge.
Rainhill has one of the oldest railway stations in the World, opening in 1830. It has an important place in railway history, as the location of the Rainhill Trials (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainhill_Trials ) where the proposed designs of locomotives for were tested in competition prior to the opening of the World’s first passenger railway, between Liverpool and Manchester.
Rainhill railway station still serves the route of the Liverpool to Manchester Line. It is operated by Northern Rail on behalf of Merseytravel and services are branded as Merseyrail.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 5 Mar 2013
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Transport Trust plaque, Rainhill railway station
"Site of the Rainhill Locomotive Trials on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, the world's first inter-city railway."
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 17 Jan 2014
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Name board, Rainhill railway station
"Rainhill - for the Rainhill Locomotive Trials Exhibition."
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 17 Jan 2014
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