How did the Railway Engines get to the Rainhill Trials?
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Originally, ten locomotives were entered for the Rainhill Trials. In the event, only five took part. Cycloped, Novelty, Perseverance, Rocket, and Sans Pareil.
The locomotives were to be transported to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway’s Millfield Yard where they were to be assembled ahead of the trials. Most were transported by sea to Liverpool, and then by wagon to Millfield Yard.
- Cycloped was built by Thomas Shaw Brandreth of Liverpool. It thus only needed to be transported the relatively short distance to the Millfield Yard by wagon. Source: Cycloped - Wikipedia
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- Novelty, built by the Ericsson and Braithwaite Partnership, was constructed in the London Workshop belonging to Braithwaite and transported to Liverpool by boat. From there she would have been carried to the Millfield Yard by wagon. Source: Novelty - Wikipedia.
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- Perseverance, owned by Timothy Burstall of Leith. Burstall had shipped his locomotive by sea to the port of Liverpool. It was damaged on the way to the Rainhill Trial track when a restraining chain broke, and the wagon that was carrying it overturned. Source: Christopher McGowan: Rail, Steam, and Speed, p9.
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- Rocket was designed by Robert Stephenson in 1829, and built at the Forth Street Works of his company in Newcastle upon Tyne. The locomotive transported by road from Stephenson's works across country to the canal basin at Carlisle. From there it was shipped to Liverpool, and then by wagon to Millfield Yard. Industrial Railway Record - Correspondence. It seems the original intent had been to transport Rocket to Liverpool by ship, but they missed the sailing date. This turned out to be fortunate as the ship was lost in the North Sea (Friedrich Newman: The 1829 'Ordeal': The Historical Significance of the Rainhill Trials).
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- Sans Pareil was built by Timothy Hackworth of Shildon, County Durham.
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I couldn't find a reference for how Sans Pareil was transported to Liverpool, but since Shildon is in the North East of England (and so on the 'wrong' side of the Pennines from Liverpool) and isn't on the coast it looks like there were relatively few options.
- It could have been carried by Wagon to either Hartlepool, Sunderland or Newcastle and then by ship to Liverpool.
- It could have been taken by wagon to Carlisle (more-or-less the same route as Rocket).
- It could have been carried by road to another canal junction and shipped to Liverpool from there.
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