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‘World first’ Edge Hill station site becomes a scheduled monument

THE starting place for steam locomotives on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, the world’s first inter-urban line, is now protected as a nationally important archaeological site.

Following an application from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust in 2018, assessment of 19th century documentary evidence, analysis of the archaeological excavations in the 1970s, and comparison with other early railway sites nationally has led to the former Edge Hill Engine

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