Lime Street Tunnel
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
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]
Supervisor of the work was William Allcard
Contractor was William Mackenzie
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Gore's Liverpool General Advertiser - Thursday 24 January 1833