CENTENARY OF RAILWAY
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
CELEBRATION IN SEPTEMBER
(Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, July 13
The centenary of the opening of the .iverpool and Manchester Railway vliich was the world’s first successful commercial locomotive railway in the modern sense of the term, will be celebrated at Liverpool in Setembcr, and arrangements have been made to make sJte celebrations worthy of the unique occasion.
t/- Although during the trial runs ii e.°29 the speed attained by a trn ; * ’drawn by‘the steam engine Rocke 4 •lid not exceed IS miles per hour when •unning light, within one week of i“ i:- Production it was travelling at thiH* ■miles per hour over the Liverpool?~.iChester track.
Tn connexion with the Septombmcelehrhtmns, which arc he : ng organiser’ x: the Cities of Liverpool and AT"’* Chester w’tli the co-on"rntion of the
v-’+ish railways, a pageant- denictiim the evolution of transport will he per?m*med, in which 5000 will take part,.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1930, Page 3
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152CENTENARY OF RAILWAY Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1930, Page 3
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