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Transport networks
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The demand for cotton resulted in a transport revolution in canal, rail and turnpike road building.
Click on the images below to find out more about each type of transport.


Waterways - Image: a horsedrawn barge on Rochdale Canal, 1899 Railways - Image: Women cleaning locomotive engine at Platts Roads - Image: Slack & Brownlow steam lorry, c1912

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