Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed for the construction of roads reserved for special classes of traffic, the forerunner of motorways.
Mineral railway that connected Yew Tree Colliery in Tyldesley to the Bridgewater Canal at Astley.
Standard gauge mineral line built to serve the pits owned by the Lister Kayes of Denby Grange in West Yorkshire.
Tramway built by the Bridgewater Trustees in the 1830s to transport coal to the Bridgewater Canal.
Railway line built in 1864 to connect local collieries to the Liverpool–Manchester main line.
The Locomotive Acts of 1861, 1865 and 1878 set the United Kingdom’s first speed limits for road-going vehicles; powered passenger vehicles were at the time known as light locomotives, as they were invariably powered by steam.
Locomotive built by Robert Stephenson and Company, a development of George Stephenson and Timothy Hackworth’s Locomotion No. 1.
Lancashire’s first public railway, promoted as a mineral line in connection with William Hulton’s coal pits to the west of his estate at Over Hulton.
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Salamanca, designed and built by Matthew Murray in 1812, was the world’s first commercially successful steam locomotive.