Ashworth, Jr., Consultant for the History of Science, Linda Hall Library and Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City. There is a statue of Locke in his home town of Barnsley ( fourth image). We have several publications written jointly by Stephenson and Locke about the Liverpool and Manchester Railway we exhibited one of these, with a frontispiece showing the entrance to the Liverpool Station ( third image), in our 2008 exhibition, Locomotion. Joseph Locke was driving the "Rocket", the famous locomotive that had won the Rainhill Trials the previous year ( second image), and his engine struck a local dignitary and killed him. To open the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830, they ran a parade of eight trains between the two cities and back. Locke was also inadvertently responsible for the first railway fatality. That stretch of line, completed in 1830, is still in use. Although Stephenson usually gets the credit, it seems to have been Locke who suggested "floating" the railway bed on the soft peat, and then successfully implemented the idea ( see first image above). One of the principal obstacles was a vast peat bog on the outskirts of Manchester, known as Chat Moss. In both cases, he appears to have done so for the. Lowell, one on Octoand a second on May 28, 1844.
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Locke was the principal assistant to George Stephenson in laying out the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first railroad. Text-02 Lines on Joe Locke February 28 and MaSaturday Museum (Mabbott text A) (quoted as part of an article about Poe, attributed to H. Locke is the unsung member of the great quartet of British railway engineers of the first half of the 19th century, the others being George Stephenson, Robert Stephenson (George’s son), and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Joseph Locke, a British civil engineer, died Sep.
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