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fresh supply of fuel. Here several of the company alighted from the 

 different carriages; on again starting, that fatal accident happened to 

 Mr. Huskinson, which, after a few hours of extreme suffering, terminated 

 his life. On the following day the Northumbrian left Liverpool with 130 

 passengers, and arrived at Manchester in one hour and fifty minutes. 

 In the evening it returned with 21 passengers and three tons of luggage, 

 in one hour and forty eight minutes; and on Friday, the 7th of Sept., 

 six carriages commenced running regularly between the towns, accom- 

 plishing the journey in much less than two hours. On the 20th of 

 November, 1830, one of the engines went over the distance in the space of 

 one hour ! two minutes of which time was taken up in oiling and 

 examining the machinery about midway. No carriages were attached to 

 this engine, and it had only the additional weight of three persons. On 

 the 4th of December following, the "Planet" locomotive engine took 

 the first load of merchandize which passed along the railway between 

 Liverpool and Manchester. Attached to the engine were 18 waggons, 

 containing 200 barrels of flour, 34 sacks of malt, 63 bags of oatmeal, and 

 135 bags and bales of cotton. The gross weight drawn, including the 

 waggons and engine tender, was about 80 tons. The speed over level 

 ground was at the rate of 12 to 14 miles per hour. The train was 

 assisted up the Whiston inclined plain by another engine, at the rate of 

 nine miles an hour; it descended the Sutton inclined plain at the rate of 

 16J miles per hour, and the average rate of theremaining part was 12| miles 

 an hour. The whole journey was performed in 2 hours and 54 minutes, 

 including three stoppages of five minutes each, for oiling, watering, and 

 takingin fuel. This was the greatest performance heretofore accomplished 

 by any locomotive power, but it was only the commencement of much 

 greater speed. The " Samson" engine, on the 25th of February, 1831, 

 started with a train of thirty waggons from Liverpool, the gross weight 

 of the whole being 164| tons! and with this enormous weight it 

 averaged a speed of 20 miles an hour, on level ground ! It was assisted 

 up the inclined plane by three other engines, and arrived in Manchester 

 within 2 hours and 34 minutes from first starting; deducting 13 minutes 

 for stoppages employed in taking in water, &c., the net time of travelling 

 was 2 hours and 21 mile. The quantity of coke consumed by the 

 engine in this journey was 1,376 Ibs,, being not quite one third of a 

 pound per ton per mile. By taking the average speed throughout at 

 13 miles an hour, the same work would have required seventy good 

 horses. The locomotive (or travelling) engines which are employed ou 

 this railway, are all what are called high pressure engine. One of 



