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Work started 23 May 1832; opened 15 August 1836 | Work started 23 May 1832; opened 15 August 1836 | ||
Supervisor of the work was [[William Allcard]] | Supervisor of the work was [[William Allcard]] | ||
Contractor was [[William Mackenzie]] | Contractor was [[William Mackenzie]] | ||
1833 'Railway Tunnel.— The making of the tunnel for the conveyance of passngers by the Railway from Lime-street, has been commenced, but no great progress has yet been made in the work. Two shafts only have been built, one in the yard of the Lunatic Asylum, in Ashton-street, and one in Crown-street.'<ref>Gore's Liverpool General Advertiser - Thursday 24 January 1833</ref> | |||
Edge Hill Station had two stationary engine houses, with high pressure side lever engines supplied by [[Mather, Dixon and Co]] to operate rope haulage for the carriages from Lime Street Station to Edge Hill Station. See illustration. Another drawing<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mks0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA708&lpg=PA708&dq=%22mather,+dixon%22+britannica&source=bl&ots=oEkGY4a8eJ&sig=ACfU3U28umfOLPvXE_38Wx6B-WVW-kWU0w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjg8vXFmsH1AhXFnVwKHT2yB78Q6AF6BAgSEAM#v=onepage&q=%22cccclxxI%22&f=false] The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 7th edition, Volume 20</ref> shows and end elevation, which shows that each winding machine had a pair of engines working a common shaft with cranks set at 90 degrees, driving a large, narrow flywheel through a clutch. The flywheel had a single groove for a cable. Steam was originally supplied from boilers nearly 1/4 mile away! The engines appear to be non-reversible, the trains returning by gravity. No provision for braking is shown on the drawings. In 1870 locomotives working the trains replaced the cable-hauled system. | |||
Between 1976 and 1980 the North Western Society for Industrial Archaeology and History carried out excavation work. Subsequently parts of the cutting containing the winding gear were filled with | |||
sand to protect them. The large winding wheel and one of the rope support wheels, along with an | |||
expansion joint from a steam pipe on Edge Hill Station were removed and stored at National Museums of Liverpool. The National Railway Museum in York also holds a return pulley wheel and bearing block from the rope haulage system.<ref>[http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/mui/marg/news/LiverpoolReportv2.pdf] Liverpool’s Lost Railway Heritage by Angela Connelly and Michael Hebbert, MARC Discussion Paper, March 2011. Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester. http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/marc/ . ISBN: 978-1-907120-99-2 </ref> | |||
== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
Revision as of 22:13, 20 January 2022
Tunnel 2,230 yards long on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway running from Edge Hill to a new station Lime Street Railway Station
Work started 23 May 1832; opened 15 August 1836
Supervisor of the work was William Allcard
Contractor was William Mackenzie
1833 'Railway Tunnel.— The making of the tunnel for the conveyance of passngers by the Railway from Lime-street, has been commenced, but no great progress has yet been made in the work. Two shafts only have been built, one in the yard of the Lunatic Asylum, in Ashton-street, and one in Crown-street.'[1]
Edge Hill Station had two stationary engine houses, with high pressure side lever engines supplied by Mather, Dixon and Co to operate rope haulage for the carriages from Lime Street Station to Edge Hill Station. See illustration. Another drawing[2] shows and end elevation, which shows that each winding machine had a pair of engines working a common shaft with cranks set at 90 degrees, driving a large, narrow flywheel through a clutch. The flywheel had a single groove for a cable. Steam was originally supplied from boilers nearly 1/4 mile away! The engines appear to be non-reversible, the trains returning by gravity. No provision for braking is shown on the drawings. In 1870 locomotives working the trains replaced the cable-hauled system.
Between 1976 and 1980 the North Western Society for Industrial Archaeology and History carried out excavation work. Subsequently parts of the cutting containing the winding gear were filled with sand to protect them. The large winding wheel and one of the rope support wheels, along with an expansion joint from a steam pipe on Edge Hill Station were removed and stored at National Museums of Liverpool. The National Railway Museum in York also holds a return pulley wheel and bearing block from the rope haulage system.[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Gore's Liverpool General Advertiser - Thursday 24 January 1833
- ↑ [1] The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 7th edition, Volume 20
- ↑ [2] Liverpool’s Lost Railway Heritage by Angela Connelly and Michael Hebbert, MARC Discussion Paper, March 2011. Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester. http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/marc/ . ISBN: 978-1-907120-99-2