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The Rainhill Trials were an important competition in the early days of steam locomotive railways, run in October 1829 in Rainhill, Lancashire ( now Merseyside ) for the nearly completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
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As the L & MR approached completion in 1829, its directors arranged for a competition to decide who would build its locomotives, and the Rainhill Trials were run in October 1829.
In 1829 he built The Rocket which was entered in and won the Rainhill Trials.
* 1829 – Rail transport: Stephenson's The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
The Rainhill Trials were arranged as an open contest that would let them see all the locomotive candidates in action, with the choice to follow.
The Rainhill stretch of the Railway was very level for a mile or so: a perfect site for the Trials.
In a recent ( 2002 ) restaging of the Rainhill Trials using replica engines, neither Sans Pareil ( 11 out of 20 runs ) nor Novelty ( 10 out of 20 runs ) completed the course.
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* October 8, 1829 – Rail transport: Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.
* October 8 – Rail transport: Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.
It was built for, and won, the Rainhill Trials held by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1829 to choose the best design to power the railway.
Novelty ( locomotive ) | Novelty, Braithwaite and Ericsson's entry for the Rainhill Trials.
In 1829 he and John Braithwaite built " Novelty " for the Rainhill Trials arranged by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
To determine whether and which locomotives would be suitable, the directors organised the Rainhill Trials.
George Stephenson | Stephenson's Rocket 1829, the winner of the Rainhill Trials
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George was living in Liverpool directing proceedings, so Robert took charge at the Forth Street Works and worked on the development of a locomotive to compete in the forthcoming Rainhill Trials, intended to choose a locomotive design to be used on the new railway.
Rocket competed successfully in the Rainhill Trials, none of its competitors completing the trial.
Sans Pareil is a steam locomotive built by Timothy Hackworth which took part in the 1829 Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, held to select a builder of locomotives.
While a capable locomotive for the day, its technology was somewhat antiquated compared to George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, the winner of the Rainhill Trials and the £ 500 prize money.
At the Rainhill Trials, Sans Pareil was excluded from the prize because it was slightly over the maximum permitted weight.
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In 2002, the Rainhill locomotive trials were re-staged on the line.
The trials were held at Rainhill, and there were three serious contestants.
However, the Rainhill trials may be seen as a milestone event, as during the eight days it lasted there were considerable modifications carried out on the three main contestants in which Hackworth participated tirelessly and displayed absolute impartiality.
', but as he had had over twenty cylinders cast, choosing the best two for the locomotive, skulduggery on the part of the Stephensons whose firm cast the cylinders, and who were direct competitors at Rainhill, is unlikely.
Rainhill was the site of the 1829 Rainhill Trials, in which a number of railway locomotives were entered in a competition to decide a suitable design for use on the new Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
In March 1892, the bodies of a woman and her four children were discovered buried under the concrete floor of Dinham Villa, Lawton Road, Rainhill.
The Rainhill victims were interred in the graveyard of St. Ann's Church.
With the establishment in 1753 of the Liverpool to Prescot turnpike, and its subsequent extension to Rainhill and then on to Warrington, a system of Toll Bars were installed with one such barrier at the Stoops.
This was the Rainhill Trials, which were run in October 1829, and were won by “ Rocket ”.
Prior to this, many Cronton Catholics were carried to St Bartholomew's in Rainhill for burial.
There was no time to test Novelty in London before transportation, and following test runs at Rainhill before the trials, modifications were carried out with the help of Timothy Hackworth.
It is sometimes claimed that one of these demonstration runs included the locomotive reaching a speed of, but there is little to back this up and it may be a misinterpretation of a newspaper report trying to give an impression of the great speeds that the Rainhill engines were achieving.
To fully recreate the Rainhill Trials, 20 return runs along a section of the Llangollen Railway were required ( between Carrog and Glyndyfrdwy stations ).
Many early steam locomotives were initially used on this line including Stephenson's Rocket, which won the Rainhill Trials in 1829 ( see List of Liverpool and Manchester Railway locomotives ).
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His son Robert designed the famous and historically important steam locomotive named Rocket for the Rainhill Trials at Liverpool in 1829Haworth 2004: The Making of a Prodigy.
* October 6 – 14-The Rainhill Trials, an important competition in the early days of steam locomotive railways, was run near Rainhill, east of Liverpool, England and won by Stephenson's Rocket.
Rainhill and competition
Rainhill is most famous for being the location of a pioneering competition to decide a suitable design for use on the new Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first inter-city passenger railway which was routed through the village.
* October 6 – 14-The Rainhill Trials, a steam locomotive competition, are run in England and won by Stephenson's Rocket.
Finally, the L & MR's board agreed the use of moving locomotives ; and the rolling stock was selected from various specialist builders by competition, at the Rainhill Trials.
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