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The traveller, having taken his place in the Grand Junction Carriages at the Station at Lime-street, will immediately proceed through the Great Tunnel, which was opened in August, 1836. It is 2,230 yards long, 17 feet high, and 25 feet wide, and cost one hundred and fifty thousand pounds; the carriages are drawn up by means of a stationary engine at Edge-hill; the steam to supply this engine is furnished by boilers situated at a considerable distance, viz. at the area from whence the locomotive engines formerly started. This communication and its machinery are well worthy of the traveller's notice, if he has time to examine them. (See Liverpool and Manchester Railway Companion.)

Emerging from the tunnel, we arrive at the Edge-hill station, at which is the stationary engine before-mentioned.

As it is not our object to give a minute account of the Railroad from Liverpool to Manchester, we shall just give a rapid sketch of it, referring our readers to the "Liverpool and Manchester Railway Companion," for more detailed information respecting the road, seats, villas, &c.; and at the end of the book we shall give a Guide to Liverpool. Manchester, and Birmingham, as stated in our Prospectus.

Immediately after the trains leave the Edge-hill station (at which place the locomotive engine is attached), two lines of rails will be observed