Date: 11/05/2014

The Liverpool Road railway station in Manchester, dating from 1830, is the oldest surviving mainline station in the world.
Along with the surrounding Victorian track structures - including a Grade I listed brick viaduct designed by George Stephenson - it has been described by English Heritage as the railway equivalent of Stonehenge.
But Network Rail is prepared to cause what it admits will be ^substantial harm^ to parts of this historic setting - the terminus of the acclaimed Liverpool and Manchester Railway - by building a 3,600-foot viaduct called the Ordsall Chord just above it.

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An artist's impression showing one of the proposals for the Ordsall Chord. See news item.
Location: Ordsall Chord
Company: Ordsall Chord (Network Rail)
20/11/2012 Network Rail

No 9... no, not Union of South Africa, but a working replica of the historic 2-2-0 locomotive Planet, seen between the former warehouses at what is now the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester on 4 February 2010. The locomotive was in steam to coincide with the visit of HRH the Prince of Wales and the Royal Train, hauled into the museum by A1 pacific Tornado.
Location: Manchester Liverpool Road
Company: Liverpool and Manchester Railway
04/02/2010 John McIntyre

Scene at Manchester Liverpool Road station in 1985 with an unidentified saddle tank running shuttles up and down the line.
Location: Manchester Liverpool Road
Company: Liverpool and Manchester Railway
//1985 Colin Miller

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