Where To Stream Secrets of the Railways Season 1 Episode 5

The line between Liverpool and Manchester was not only the first to rely exclusively on steam power, with no horse-drawn traffic permitted at any time, it was also the first to be entirely double-track throughout its length. It was the first railway to have a signalling system, the first to be time-tabled and the first to carry mail. Wealthy Liverpool, which had benefitted hugely from the slave trade, imported cotton from the southern US. Manchester transformed it into garments. What was needed...