“ROCKET” OUT AGAIN
RAILWAY CENTENARY CELEBRATED
PAGEANT AT LIVERPOOL
Britisli Official Wireless RUGBY, Sunday
Iu tlie course of a speech at the opening at Liverpool yesterday of a national railway week, which is being held to celebrate the centenary of the first passenger railway in the world —- that which ran between Liverpool and Manchester —Mr. C. G. Dawes, United States Ambassador to Britain, said: —- “Great as have been the beneficial changes in the life of Britain which the railways have wrought the debt of distant countries to this achievement of British genius is even greater than that of the British people themselves.
“That first railway has become a model for world imitation and has opened a new era for humanity in which both the needs of mankind and the means of supplying them are immensely diversified and multiplied.” The celebrations include a remarkable exhibition of the earliest experiment in steam traction and a pageant, on the largest open-air stage ever erected in Britain, showing the development of transport from the earliest times, including the “Rocket” and other early engines.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1078, 16 September 1930, Page 9
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