Date: 17/05/2014

Steam trains will no longer be able to access the historic former Liverpool Road Station under plans to sever it from the railway network.
Bosses at MoSI have agreed a secret deal with Network Rail to drop their objection to the firm^s bid to build an £85m bridge across the River Irwell at Castlefield.
Under the plans, Liverpool Road station - the world^s oldest intercity station which has a 180-year-old history after trains started using it in the 1830s - will be cut off.
Network Rail^s so-called ^Ordsall Chord^ plan would link Victoria and Piccadilly stations for the first time as part of a £530m bid to improve the ^bottleneck^ rail network around Manchester.
But museum chiefs have now stopped fighting against the scheme - just 18 months after they warned of a ^severe impact^ on their visitor numbers and revenue. [From Ian Dinmore]

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Steam trains will no longer run to historic Liverpool Road station at MOSI under 'Ordsall Chord' plan

Manchester Evening News

Bosses at the Museum of Science and Industry agree deal with Network Rail to drop objection to £85m bridge plan.

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Location: Ordsall Chord
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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
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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
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