Show forty nine years ago FIRST RAILROAD as TIIE WOULD the baltimore american says just forty nine ears ngo that is sept 15 the first passenger railroad in england alio liverpool and manchester railway was opened with great ceremony A year before a prize of had been offered for the best locomotive engine which had been won by rocket upon which was subsequently modeled tho old grasshopper engines of the baltimore and ohio r it l road their appearance being sugi of their name eight locomotive engines had been completed and upon the line and all biad been tested with entire success to every was attached four passenger carriages each containing twenty persons tho first engine alio drew the most distinguished guests the duko of wellington Sirl tobert peel and other members of tho ministry it had ono lino of double truck to itself the other seven locomotives with their car biages followed each other on the ether line the procession started from liverpool at 11 with flags music ano weather and great enthusiasm seventeen miles from liverpool they stopped to lake in water and in order to afford lie duke of wellington an opportunity of seeing tho the seven locomotive with their carriages ordered to past slowly by the standing on its track several gentlemen alighted while the locomotives taking in water and one of them mr member of for liverpool nn earnest supporter of cause catching faight ortho dulco of Wellington between eliom and himself there had been fomo political noli coolness ran esseily efio track to ehnke him by he liand at that moment the order was ghen for the seven engines to move forward mr waa bewildered the bocket was the loading en etrick him while he was abill in doubt to uee tho went over his cg and thigh and ho expired that evening tho accident cast a deep over alic days faso alie rip was concluded hu hie people waiting dilong the road not be disappointed but nil rejoicing annj acro il nn cud the nest day alio wai for pas traffic 10 persons from liec to manchester in two lio iii the original calculation of the haj boan baand baaed on liro bablo returns from heavy baer cotton aej iron aliey lud formed tio high ca dimate of emolument from transporting but he railway was hardly opened before alil average of persona acro willing to trust it with their lives in adew years it was found that the enormous enor moui was too heavy for the original rails and it lecarno necessary to relay tho road at considerable expense but though sept 1830 is tho greatest day in railroad lail road uni iala being tant on which thu first rail roid wa opened complete our own maryland preceded the liverpool and in utility the first sod of ohp and ohio was broken for Us con bt ruction july ath aw and by the next year horse cars by one locomotive engine canning between alio kelay house and ellicott mill |