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The Grand Experiment

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

This is the most absurd scheme that ever entered the head of man to conceive.
This infernal nuisance - the locomotive monster-coming throuoh ecery man's grounds between Manchester and Liver-An account of the formidable political and physical obstacles that had to be overcome before the world's first complete railway was opened on 15 september 1830.
Narrator David Mahlowe George Stephenson
PETER WHEELER
Other parts played by RUSSELL BIXON , GARARD GREEN, WILFRED HARRISON , RONALD HARVI , KATE LEE. ALAN MEADOWS, ALAN ROTHWELL and HERBERT SMITH
Written by NORMAN LONG -MATE. Producer
STANLEY WILLIAMSON
BBC Manchester.

Contributors

Narrator:
David Mahlowe
Narrator:
George Stephenson
Narrator:
Peter Wheeler
Played By:
Russell Bixon
Unknown:
Wilfred Harrison
Unknown:
Ronald Harvi
Unknown:
Herbert Smith
Written By:
Norman Long
Source: Radio Times

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