"The Rocket" (artist unknown) showing the scene in 1840. Painting is located at Agatha Christie's Greenway home in Devon.

Also, the construction shafts for the Wapping Tunnel came down to the side of the tunnel. This photo is the entrance from the tunnel into the Bedford Street shaft, which is partially reopened.

What year is this, Ed? Wavertree Lane bridge is LNWR era, and I have never looked into when Parks bridge, Old Lane bridge and Wright's bridge were taken down, so I don't know if they would have all been standing at the same time.

stored the bales on their arrival until their turn for delivery came. No remonstrance could induce them to add to their number of boats, or to increase their speed, or reduce the rate of freights.”

His full comment "It took longer at that time, for the Manchester manufacturers to get their cotton from Liverpool than it had done for the same bales to come from America to England. The canal company, strong in its monopoly of transit, took life easily,

Locomotive powered for the entire passenger journey.
Timetabled
Ticketed
Dual tracked, never encountering another train coming in the opposite direction
Purpose-built stations
Everything needed for the journey: the track, locomotives and the rolling stock were all supplied by the provider...

To highlight the needle vs. haystack nature of this search, there have been Count Potocki since the 12th century, with the last one dying in 1997. Even in the first half of the 19th Century there were two Leon Potocki, our diplomat & a poet. Both born at the end of the 18th C and dying in the 1860s

We have finally nailed down that we are looking for Leon Potocki, with this we can start to narrow our search parameters. Count Leon Potocki (1788–1860) was a Polish noble who served the Russian Empire as an ambassador all across Europe. including Lisbon, Naples, Vienna, London and Stockholm.

GAH!! Maude in BR livery, who did that to her?!?!?!

Next we have a close up of the cutting with and without models of the Moorish arch (model by ‪vrsimility.bsky.social‬) and the two "Pillars of Hercules" chimneys (model by POD). It may be time to remake our Wapping Tunnel route video...

The landlady popped out for a chat while we where taking photos. We couldn't stay long, we needed to get to the Sankey Viaduct before we lost the sun.

I can't find any newspaper account of that bridge collapsing.

Never seen that one before.

This image from the Newland map of 1848 shows the track coming out of the 1829 tunnel, taking the sharp right, then going to the turntable in the top corner, but then that line does not go into coal yards...