Having just left Earlstown station a short distance away 5690 'Leander' makes its way across Sankey viaduct leading the outward leg of the BR organised Manchester to Liverpool Edge Hill Rocket 150 charter. The historical importance of the Grade I listed Sankey viaduct is right up there with other historical railway structures such as St. Pancras station and Box tunnel. It is the world's oldest mainline viaduct and is still in use today coming up for two hundred years after it opened. It carried the Liverpool & Manchester railway across a valley through which the Sankey Brook and the Sankey Canal both passed and was designed and engineered by the famous George Stephenson.
There is an audio recording of this event on my youtube channel, see..
https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/29578716404/x5690-br-sponsored-manchester-liverpool