A Liverpool site with a key role in railway history has been selected for national protection.
Edge Hill Engine Station, the starting place of the world’s first inter-urban locomotive-hauled railway, has been selected for protection as a nationally important archaeological site by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on the advice of Historic England.
The news comes following an application from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Trust in 2018. Documentary evidence from the 19th century, analysis of the archaeological excavations in the 1970s and comparison with other early railway sites nationally has led to the site’s addition to the National Heritage List for England as a scheduled monument.
