CENTENARY OF RAILWAY
HUGE BRITISH PAGEANT PLANNED
British Official Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, July 13. The centenary of the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, the world’s first successful commercial locomotive railway in the modern sense of the term, will be celebrated at Liverpool in September, and arrangements have been made to make the celebrations worthy of the occasion. Although during the trial runs in 1829 the speed attained by a train drawn by the steam engine “Rocket” did not exceed 18 miles an hour when running light, within one of its introduction it was travelling at 30 miles an hour over the Liver-pool-Manchester track. In connection with the September celebrations, which are being organised by the cities o f Liverpool and Manchester with the co-operation of the British railways, a pageant depicting the evolution of transport will be performed. Five thousand people will take part in the pageant.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1930, Page 9
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