ON THE 
PRESSURE OF THE STEAM 
CAUSED THE EXPLOSION OF THE BOILER 
OF THE 
IRK, LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE. 
BY THE REV. EDMUND SIBSON, 
Minister of Ashton-in-Makerfield. 
(Read April 15th, 1845.) 
1. The boiler of the Jrk, Locomotive Engine, 
exploded in the Shed, at Miles Platting, near 
Manchester, belonging to the Manchester and 
Leeds Railway Company, about six o’clock on 
the morning of Tuesday, the 30th day of January, 
1845. 
2. Mr. Fairbairn, of Manchester, Civil Engineer, 
in his report of the cause of this explosion, says, 
that the top of the fire-box was forced down, like 
a piece of paper, upon the front of the tubes, by 
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