What were the advatages and disadvantages of transport between Liverpool and Manchester 1820?
Introduction!
In this Virtual Museum you will learn the advantages and disadvantages of transport between Liverpool and Manchester!
It took essential materials
Advantage: Before the railway was created, they used a canal and also by road to transport all goods to and from Liverpool and Manchester. This is an advantage since it could transport all essential goods to and from Liverpool and Manchester.
Journey were very long!
Disadvantage: The journeys were so long to and from liverpool and Manchester.
For example:
Disadvantages:
Too expensive!!!!!
Disadvantage: one big downside of the transport between Manchester and Liverpool was that it was too expensive!
For example:
By road: 40s a ton
By the Leeds and Liverpool Canal: 9s 2d a ton
By the Mersey and Irwell Navigation
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
The Hireling Shepherd
This is a painting by William Holman Hunt, a leading British Pre-Raphaelite.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The END!
As you can see, there are too many disadvantages than advantages to not have to make a change! Soon after they realised, they built a railway to solve most of their problems!
