The Tunnel blue drape attempt to steer the Ship

attempt to steer the Ship of Government across crowded waters

Lord Denman and Lushington

27th July 1981

Honor Blackman and Patrick MacNee from the television programme The Avengers

later becoming a boxing arena before being destroyed in the Blitz

The Tunnel blue drape attempt to steer the Ship'The Tunnel', Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1833. The world's first intercity railway, the Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened on 15 September 1830. Engineered by George Stephenson, the line was a remarkable feat of engineering, with viaducts, tunnels and an ingenious floating crossing of the peat bogs at Chat Moss. From Coloured view of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. (London, 1832 1833).