The rather sad and rundown remains of Manchester's Liverpool Road

station taken on a wet evening. However, today I am pleased to report that the buildings have been restored and that they are now part of the Science Museum group's visitor centre. The station's historical importance cannot be emphasised enough with it being the eastern terminus of the world's very first passenger railway opened in 1830. Unfortunately, with the construction of the so-called Ordsall Curve to the left of where I am standing here the station is now isolated from the national network with its former tracks that crossed the bridge to the left in this photograph have now been truncated; an absolute travesty of the highest order. Notice the posters attached to the building advertising the Great Railway Exposition that was one of the events celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the line.