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This is a sculpture in the middle of a roundabout on the A570 St.Helens Linkway and it welcomes you to St.Helens...
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This is a roundabout on the A570, St. Helens Linkway to the south of St. Helens. This roundabout, like some of the others along this road, has a metal sculpture in the centre and this particular one welcomes you to St. Helens. The left turn goes into a field and the right turn goes into a road simply called Eurolink.
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©Colin Pyle
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©Ian Greig
Dist:0.3km<br/>May 1980 was the 150th anniversary of the original Rainhill Trials which was won by the "Rocket". In May 1980 British Rail re-enacted these trials on the same stretch of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway. Western Courier was a diesel hydraulic from the Western Region of BR.
©David Ashcroft
Dist:0.3km<br/>May 1980 was the 150th anniversary of the original Rainhill Trials which was won by the "Rocket". In May 1980 British Rail re-enacted these trials on the same stretch of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway. 25298 was a BR built mixed traffic loco with a Sulzer engine, seen here demonstrating the latest car transporter.
©David Ashcroft
Dist:0.3km<br/>May 1980 was the 150th anniversary of the original Rainhill Trials which was won by the "Rocket". In May 1980 British Rail re-enacted these trials on the same stretch of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway. 56077 propells the APT past the crowds.
©David Ashcroft
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©Raymond Knapman
Dist:0.3km<br/>May 1980 was the 150th anniversary of the original Rainhill Trials which was won by the "Rocket". In May 1980 British Rail re-enacted these trials on the same stretch of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway. Deltic 55015 "Tulyar" hauls 86214 (the modern day "Sans Pareil") past the crowds. The Deltics were diesel electrics built by English Electric at their Vulcan Works in Newton-Le-Willows, just up the line from here. They were introduced in 1961 and worked on the East Coast Mainline until 2 January 1982.
©David Ashcroft
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Somerset & Dorset Railway was jointly owned by the Midland and the London & South Western. Cutting right across GWR territory, it allowed the Midland access to Bournemouth West, for years the terminus of the 'Pines Express'. This locomotive is one of 11 designed by Fowler of the Midland and built 1914 to 1925. Its original S&D number was 89. It became No 9679 of the LMS and later 13809, its final BR number being 53809. These were powerful and useful engines, and one other member of the class survives.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is No 5690 'Leander' of the LMS, built by Stanier in 1936 at Crewe, one of some 191 locos. to this design, of which four survive.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Gresley A4 streamlined locomotives of the LNER have always caught the public's imagination. 35 were built at Doncaster in 1937, and six survive into preservation. This example is No 4498, 'Sir Nigel Gresley'. It carries its original number, but in 1946 the LNER renumbered it 7, and it became 60007 under British Railways. Another example of this class, 'Mallard', holds the world speed record for a steam locomotive, 126 m.p.h. established in 1938.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Probably the most famous steam locomotive in the world, the LNER Pacific A3 class 'Flying Scotsman' carries the number 4472 by which it is best known. When built at Doncaster in 1923 to Gresley's design it was originally numbered 1472, but this was quickly changed to 4472. In 1946 it was renumbered 502, but this was a mistake and again quickly changed to 103. It became British Railways No 60103.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.3km<br/>At the 1923 Grouping when the Midland Railway became part of the London, Midland and Scottish, the Midland Chief Mechanical Engineer, Fowler, retained his job, becoming CME of the LMS. Under his stewardship, some 422 of these small 0-6-0T shunting engines were built, most by outside contractors. They are almost the prototype 'Thomas the Tank Engine'. Some ten examples survive. This one, originally No 7138, soon became 7298 and was later BR No 47298.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.3km<br/>This most interesting locomotive was built as one of some 240 to a design of Johnson of the Midland Railway between 1905-09. However beginning in 1914 they were rebuilt by Deeley as Compound engines with one high pressure and two low pressure cylinders. This one was originally No 2361 but received the number 1000 when rebuilt. Under British Railways ownership it became No. 41000.
©Dr Neil Clifton

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