In
1825 William Hulton appointed George
Stephenson as chief engineer of the proposed Bolton & Leigh
Railway. Where the route was very steep, the line incorporated cable-hauled
sections. George and his son Robert Stephenson
were asked to produce the company's first locomotive, the Lancashire
Witch. The Bolton & Leigh was opened in 1828 and following
year the Kenyon & Leigh Junction Railway was incorporated to extend
the line to meet the Liverpool & Manchester
at Kenyon Junction.
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