A section of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway" class="extiw" title="w:Liverpool and Manchester Railway">Liverpool and Manchester Railway</a> in a shallow cutting, between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Green_railway_station" class="extiw" title="w:Broad Green railway station">Broad Green</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roby_railway_station" class="extiw" title="w:Roby railway station">Roby</a><br>Cornish (1837) describes this part of the line as "a pleasant well-cultivated country, covered with seats of the nobility and gentry, having from the line an appearance highly interesting and picturesque" (p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OG_fAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA52">52</a>)
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65012821" class="extiw" title="d:Q65012821"><span title="English engraver">S.G. Hughes</span></a>
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T.T. Bury (revised edition 1833), <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bury%27s_Coloured_Views_on_the_Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway,_1831" title="Category:Bury's Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831">Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway</a></i>.  London: Ackermann &amp; Co; plate 11.<br>This scan/photograph from the Stapleton Collection, via the Bridgeman Art Library (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/267573/Bury-Thomas-Talbot-1811-77-after/Near-Liverpool-looking-towards-Manchester-plate-">STC 267573</a>) and Artfinder.com (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.artfinder.com/work/near-liverpool-looking-towards-manchester-plate-11-from-coloured/">description page</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://media.artfinder.com/works/r/bal/3/7/5/267573_full_1024x835.jpg">image</a>)