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1830
The museum stands on the world's first inter-urban passenger railway station
The museum is on the site of Manchester Liverpool Road station, which opened in 1830 as part of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. The station frontage and the 1830 warehouse are Grade I listed.
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The museum opened on the old station site in 1983
It first opened in 1969 in temporary premises on Grosvenor Street. In 1978 Greater Manchester Council bought the earliest part of the former station from British Rail for a nominal sum. The museum opened there on 15 September 1983.
The Baby
A working replica of the Manchester Baby stands in the Revolution gallery
The Revolution Manchester Gallery holds a working replica of the Manchester Baby, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine. It is the ancestor of every modern computer.
Power Hall
The Power Hall holds one of the largest collections of historic engines
The Power Hall is a Grade II listed building, once a hub for shipping global products. It holds a Crossley engine, an example of the first type of internal-combustion engine to work on Otto's four-stroke principle.
Cottonopolis
Cottonopolis: the cotton trade was tied to transatlantic slavery
Dubbed Cottonopolis, Manchester was once the international centre of the world's cotton industry. The Textiles Gallery shows how the trade was connected to transatlantic slavery, with the testimony of Frederick Douglass and Mary Reynolds, who were formerly enslaved.
Day 2, midday
It comes after Castlefield. Then Imperial War Museum North.
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