Another in my series of shorts about Metropolitan Vickers in advance of a talk I am giving at CGN History Group on Tues 8th July 1.30pm. It illustrates what an amazing infdustrial history Manchester has got, and espcially the pwer engineerinh at Metrovics
SAR Class 1 ESAR CAL
Freight Train on the Sishen Line, South Africa
The longest train in South Africa (and the worls at the time- a 7.281km monster that travelled 861km from Sishen to Saldanha Bay. In all, 660 fully-laden ore trucks, nine electric locomotives, seven Diesel engines and three other cars
The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked a transformative moment in transport, industry, and society. It was a radical departure from a reliance on horses or canals
Chorlton Good Neighbours 