Rainhill
Passing under the world's first skew arch railway bridge 142032 slows to call at Rainhill on a Lime Street to Stalybridge all stations service in October 2011. The bridge, now listed, is made up of individually shaped stones that were based on a wooden mock up constructed in a nearby field at the time the line was being built. It features in many early prints of the Liverpool and Manchester railway and, at 180 years old, still carries a busy main road. Soon of course it will also have OLE wires underneath it as the Liverpool to Manchester electrification gets under way.
Location: Rainhill
Original line: Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Photographer: Mark Bartlett
Contact photographer: Mark Bartlett
Date: 13/10/2011
Image number: 36010
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