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 Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:23 pm Post subject: Liverpool and Manchester |
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Chat Moss brast up within a mile of Mosley Haul, and destroied much grounde with mosse thereabout, and destroyed much fresh-water fishche thereabout, first corrupting with stinkinge water Glasebrooke, and so Glasebrooke carried stinkinge water and mosse into Mersey water, and Mersey corrupted carried the roulling mosse, part to the shores of Wales, part to the isle of Man, and some unto Ireland.[7]
—John Leland, Quoted in Robert Chambers'The Book of Days; A Miscellany of Popular Antiquity
A very early steam locomotive pulling four open carriages under a cloudy blue sky along a track slightly built up from the surrounding flat countryside. The train has just passed a small farmhouse and is approaching a gentleman who is standing by the side of the track.
View of the Railway across Chat Moss, 1833
Chat Moss presented a significant challenge to the engineers constructing the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1826 because of the difficulty in providing a solid base for the track, in particular at a location known as Blackpool Hole.[8] George Stephenson was the engineer in charge of the project, and his initial idea was to dump enough spoil in the bog so that it would reach the bottom. This approach turned out to be impractical however, as the liquidity of the bog allowed the spoil to flow away from where the track was to be laid.[9] The eventual solution, to build the line on a "floating" wood and stone foundation, was hailed as a "great triumph of engineering".[8] The first train ran through Chat Moss in 1830, and the line is still in use today.[8]
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