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Rainhill Station red plaque

Commemorative plaque
Rainhill Station red plaque
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This red commemorative plaque records: Rainhill Station Site of the 1829 Rainhill Locomotive Trials on the Liverpool to Manchester Railway the worlds first inter-city railway Recorded plaque organisation: Transport Trust.

From the Open Plaques record 9463

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  • Neil Theasby, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sue Adair, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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