Seems like Rocket was a really dangerous locomotive. :eek:

Wouldnt be allowed nowadays, H&S would have had it destroyed on the spot with remote control cutting torches from a bunker a mile away :D

Indeed Shed Cat, The site is on "Parkside Rd, Newton-Le-Willows. On the Liverpool-Manchester line within the triangle of the junction with the West Coast Mainline, (once a favorite stop of Royal Trains).

The monument was restored a few years ago, but no effort has been made to make access to it (on the opposite side of the track) for photographs etc. Although it may be possible.....I pass this way every day, I'll see what I can do...:)

It was a dangerous machine that "Rocket" was'nt it, running over all those people. H&S would have had a field day.
Paul.

Hopefully they would get too close and..............

Now thats a lovely thought, and should be the "Thought for Today".
Paul.

I saw a re-enactment of that last year and it appears that Huskinson, who was a big advocate of the railways, was actually hanging out of a carrage door when he got clipped by a train going the other way, or something similar.

I wonder if his family claimed "Expenses" to clean his clothes.
Paul.

Ok................Sorry about the delay all.....but it's hardly been photographic weather up here in the frozen north of late, but today...I think that Spring just arrived and I took the opportunity to stop and take a few pics.........I hope you enjoy them.


The Huskisson Monument

Ah! I see I've exeeded the limit..... but I'd really like to finish the sequence of pics....

No1 is the view from the road bridge looking east from Parkside Rd

No4 Shows just how difficult the view is from opposite the monument.


Ahem!.......a bit closer!

..and finally ..........No8 the Inscription......


I do like the very early Victorian flowery phrases like: "Singled out by the decree ofan inscrutable providence.....etc etc."

I other words......He was in the wrong place at the wrong time!.......

Hope you enjoy the pics....I'll post the rest now...Personally, I've lived nearby all my life and never seen this monument before up close. It was worth the bramble scratches on my legs and arms! :)

Stand by for the last sequence..................

Keep going Res!!! :D