The crossing of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat_Moss" class="extiw" title="w:Chat Moss">Chat Moss</a> by 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>. <br>The creation of a stable trackbed across this treacherous area of deep <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/peat_bog" class="extiw" title="w:peat bog">peat bog</a> was one of the most difficult challenges faced by the constructors of the line.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18508293" class="extiw" title="d:Q18508293"><span title="British printmaker">Henry Pyall</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 5.<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/267570/Bury-Thomas-Talbot-1811-77/View-of-the-Railway-across-Chat-Moss-plate-5-from">STC 267570</a>) and Artfinder.com (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.artfinder.com/work/view-of-the-railway-across-chat-moss-plate-5-from-coloured-view-/">description page</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://media.artfinder.com/works/r/bal/5/5/4/122455_full_1024x830.jpg">image</a>)