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RAILWAYS LEFT; Locomotive crossing Chat Moss in 1830. Chat Moss to the west of Eccles proved a formidable challenge to engineer George Stephenson. Despite the problems that the soft, boggy land posed Stephenson succeeded in constructing the world's first inter city passenger railway , the Liverpool-Manchester railway. Sadly the opening day was marred by the fatal accident to William Huskisson M.P. who was run over by a locomotive and died later that day at Eccles Vicarage, becoming the world's first passenger railway fatality. RIGHT: John Cantrell's book shows a Nasmyth-Wilson locomotive. This firm, successor to James Nasmyth's Bridgewater Foundry, built locos that were transported across the globe. Patricroft was also famous for its locomotives sidings and sheds, where many engines would be serviced and repaired.