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| Keywords: Moorish Arch looking from the Tunnel, from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831 - artfinder 122454.jpg 09 Warehouses etc at the end of the Tunnel towards Wapping from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1831 - artfinder 267568 jpg Near Liverpool looking towards Manchester from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1831 - artfinder 267573 jpg Artwork Creator S G Hughes en The Moorish Arch in the cuttings at w Edge Hill railway station Edge Hill on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway where locomotives were originally attached and detached from trains <br>The arch designed by the Liverpool architect John Foster responded to the railway directors' desire for a monumental ornate structure to mark the entrance of the railway into the city It also housed the two steam engines one on either side that powered the cable railway apparatus which was used to haul wagons with goods from the docks up to Edge Hill through the Wapping tunnel and passenger carriages up the final stretch from Edge Hill to the railway terminus at Crown Street railway station Crown Street First class passengers could also join the trains here conveyed by horse-drawn carriages from Dale Street in the city centre Steam and smoke from the engines was ducted through flues in the rockface on either side to two tall chimneys nicknamed the Pillars of Hercules at the other end of the cutting <br> The arch was demolished in 1864 when the right hand south side of the cutting was widened out Another source says the late 1830s http //www sed manchester ac uk/research/marc/research/projects/documents/LiverpoolReportv2 pdf p 19 1831 aquatint object history exhibition history credit line The original watercolour picture by T T Bury is in the page http //media artfinder com/works/r/bal/4/5/4/122454_full_1024x836 jpg image PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT 1831 10 Bury's Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1831 10 Engravings by S G Hughes Engravings after pictures by Thomas Talbot Bury Edge Hill cutting Edge Hill first railway station | ||||
