Rainhill trials re-enactment
- Title
- Rainhill trials re-enactment
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 25 May 1980
- Year of production
- 1980
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- Duration
- 00:03:30
- Description
- Report on the re-enactment of the Rainhill trials in Lancashire, a competition held in Oct 1829 by the Manchester and Liverpool Railway to discover the most appropriate locomotive to use on their tracks. Includes interview with author and railway historian Frank Ferneyhough. Male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Frank Ferneyhough
- Keywords
- Anniversary celebrations; British Rail; Railways; Lancashire; Rainhill; History; Trains; Contests; Victorian period; Anniversaries; Steam engines; Locomotives
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