Near Liverpool, looking towards Manchester mb-height 2852 13th December 1967

13th December 1967

Left to right: Charlie Watts

'The Lady of the Lake

In 1919 British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown made the first successful transtlantic flight in one of the aircraft

Near Liverpool, looking towards Manchester mb-height 2852 13th December 1967'Near Liverpool, looking towards Manchester', Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1833. The world's first intercity railway, the Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened on 15 September 1830. Engineered by George Stephenson, the line was a remarkable feat of engineering, with viaducts, tunnels and an ingenious floating crossing of the peat bogs at Chat Moss. Plate 11 from Coloured view of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. (London, 1832 1833).