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15th September 1830: William Huskisson killed on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:53
Publish Date: 2017-09-14 21:05:30
Description: The British MP William Huskisson died as a result of a fatal accident on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was created in order to link Manchester, a major industrial city in the north west of England, with the nearby port of Liverpool. Intended to lower the cost of transporting imported cotton to the Manchester textile mills, the 35-mile railway was an incredibly expensive project as it was the first railway to use locomotives to haul goods and passengers. William Huskisson was the MP for Liverpool, and fought hard to secure parliamentary representation ...
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