The only surviving photographs in my grandfather’s
collection that featured the nineteenth century railway - apart from the Conwy
examples - were these shots of the Runcorn Bridge. Arthur Priestley recorded the
opening of the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894, whilst travelling the length of
the new waterway from Eastham to Salford.
The Runcorn railway bridge, connecting Widnes and Runcorn on
the main line from Liverpool to London Euston, is a grade two listed building.
It was built by the London and North Western Railway and opened in 1868. The
bridge crosses both the River Mersey and the ship canal.
Arthur had to take two pictures to fit it all in, both of
which I included in Merseyside in Monochrome, on the page shown below. The
second image shows a southbound train about to cross from Lancashire into
Cheshire.
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