Science and Industry Museum
Museum of industry and invention set in the world's oldest surviving railway terminus.
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This guide to the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester stands you at Liverpool Road, the old terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, on the September afternoon in eighteen thirty when the first trains rolled in carrying the Duke of Wellington. It follows the crowd waiting for him, the banners they carried, and the darker news that travelled with the train. It also reaches back to Peterloo, the massacre that happened a short walk away. Best heard beside the old station building.
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