Ed Farrell

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Liverpool history enthusiast and artist reconstructing the City's past and celebrating its heritage. http://www.edfarrell-art.co.uk

A drawing. Landscape showing part of a railway journey in 1835. Featuring rural fields, towns, bridges and stations etc. with explanatory panels
An extract from an 1831 painting showing a red railway carriage and a road carriage mounted on a wheeled platform - both with passengers in dress of that period.
A drawing of a brick bridge in a rural setting with a nineteenth century steam train and carriages passing overhead
An engraving of the Bridgewater Foundry adjacent to a railway line and canal bridge; showing chimneys. multi story buildings and passing trains
A drawing of the bridge over the Bridgewater canal 1835. It shows the yellow and red carriages of a steam train passing over with foreground canal barges, carts, horses; behind are rural fields and a cloudy sky.
Two maps which show the Liverpool to Manchester Railway Line in the 1830s/1840s. A comparison designed to demonstrate the existence of a specific bridge (or not!)
A discussion piece. Two paintings of court housing for poor folk in nineteenth century Liverpool (Vauxhall and Crosbie Street) with details of severe deprivation
An illustration depicting the rocket locomotive pulling yellow first class carriages along an embankment. The scene shows a rural landscape and in the foreground a farmhouse and farmer with a field access tunnel underneath the embankment
A panel designed to aid discussion about how a Wapping warehouse (Liverpool docks)looked in 1835 with photos, a drawing and maps to underpin the discussion.
An aeriel painting of Wapping Railway station Liverpool as it would have looked in 1835 showing surrounding buildings and Queen's dock. Indicators on the picture explain locations and businesses (eg timberyards, rope works etc.)
A painting showing an aeriel view of Wapping goods station, Liverpool, as it would have looked in 1835. Showing the railway, trains, station buildings, a part of Queens dock (with sailing boats) many warehouses, horses and carts and a busy surrounding port town.
Showing the Li erpool History Society Journal 2026 front cover showing a reconstruction painting of Lime Street Station in 1868
Two mid -eighteenth century maps side by side comparing roads and bridges in the Whiston area.
A painting of how Liverpool Road station would have looked in 1835, showing the railway, trains, warehouses and surrounding buildings
A diagram showing Liverpool Road Station Manchester in the 1830s/1840s. The diagram shows various earlier proposals for a terminus station and the eventual move to Victoria station in 1844
Paintings of 3 locomotives of the Liverpool and Manchester railway; Planet, Samson, and Patentee; showing key aspects of design.
A list of locomotives of the Liverpool & Manchester railway from 1829 to 1845.
A sketch of how Wappi g station.might have looked in 1830. Aeriel landscape showing streets, buildings etc.
An illustration of how the Wapping Tunnel in Liverpool was built. Showing a cutaway diagram of two shafts and the interior of the tunnel under construction; men horses tramway. . A plan shows the location of all 8 construction shafts.
A diagram showing speculative timeliness for construction of the Wapping tunnel in the 1820s influenced by events
A discussion document designed to establish detasils relating to the building of the Wapping Railway tunnel in Liverpool. Showing maps and the position of tunnel details.
A drawing of several bridges which would have existed on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1836. Sketches of each bridge are placed where they would have stood along a map of the line
A discussion document about the historic and current railway bridges in the Whiston area, with sketches, photos and document extracts to help.
An extract from an Ordnance Survey map of 1849. Shows the town of Whiston in Lancashire, where a railway cuts through.
A painting. A reconstruction of BrMley Moore dock in Liverpool as it would have looked in the 1860s. Showing an aeriel view of several docks, warehouses, sailing ships, trains and vehicles and a windmill.
A painting of how Liverpool Road Station Manchester would have looked in 1836. An ariel view showing the railway itself, warehouses, streets and buildings, factories, people and transport
A study of a set of 12 bridges (sketches and descriptions) which were built for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. In this case all show arches passing under the railway through an embankment
A discussion document seeking analysis about the coal drop structures at Liverpool Road Station manchester in the 1830s with maps, discussion points and speculative diagrams
A blog entry showing architectural details that exist around the viaduct leading into Liverpool Street station Manchester. Suggests the passenger exit from arrivals was once by crossing the tracks
A discussion document dealing with the arrangements for passengers arriving at Liverpool Street Station in Manchester during the early 1830s. A map Showing options together with supporting photos of a bridge nearby
A painting of Liverpool Road station Manchester as it would have looked in 1836. An aeriel shot showing Irwell river and ships, the railway running through the paintings several with trains; vehicles, buildings, a water tower and warehouses
A painting of Liverpool Road station Manchester as it would have looked in 1836. An aeriel shot showing Irwell river and ships, the railway running through the paintings several with trains; vehicles, buildings, a water tower and warehouses
A series of sketches studying the infrastructure of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway in the 1830s, showing g the track layout, stations and bridges
A stone structure from an old railway coal drop showing diagonally placed holes that may have held timber joists
A photograph of the brickwork, doors and windows of railway viaduct into Liverpool Road station with signage for the Fa tory centre nearby
A sketch showing how the coaldrops at Manchester's Liverpool Road station might have looked in the mid-19th century. Showing rails, warehouses and wagons
A little drawing of a track layout at Liverpool Road station Manchester, showing 4 tracks and train manouvers
A study showing how the Liverpool Road terminus of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway might have looked. The sketch shows the elevated track, through which specially designed trucks are dropping coal. to be distributed via horsedrawn wagons. The study also shows two maps from the 18thc from which information to support a discussion has been taken.
An aeriel sketch of an old railway station in Manchester with several stories cutaway to show interior features .
A hand drawn listing of the bridges on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in its early days, mapping out a section of the line with drawings of how the timber and stone bridges looked
A diagram showing the four branch railways that connected to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in the 1830s. Showing a diagram of each line and details associated with each line at that time.
A graphic represnting the stations on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway during the 1830s - listing the stations left to right. Including the positions of branch railways at that time .
A tabulation of stations on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway line during the 1830s, with references
A tabulation of 30 stations and stops on the Liverpool and manchester Railway in thw 1830s. Designed to iron out some ambiguities.
Extract from a book explaining that gate practice at level crossing in the 1830s was variable
Photo of a book entitled 'Li erpool and Mancheste Railway; 1830-2980' by Frank Ferneyhough
A collection of maps and paintings etc. from the mid 19th century around the Liverpool and Manchester railway at the Manchester terminus. Designed, somewhat esoterically, to discuss the water tower on the Irwell viaduct.