What port city was connected to Manchester by the world's first railroad?
Port of Manchester Port of Manchester The Port of Manchester was a port in North West England, until its closure in 1982. It was created as a customs port on 1 January 1894, four months before the official opening of the Manchester Ship Canal. It extended along the whole length of the ship canal, from Eastham in the west to Manchester in the east, absorbing the Port of Runcorn, which had been created in 1862. The new port was only from the Port of Liverpool's boundary at Herculaneum Dock, and from the Port of Garston. The ship canal transformed Manchester from a landlocked
McMinnville and Manchester Railroad McMinnville and Manchester Railroad The McMinnville and Manchester Railroad Company was chartered by an Act of the legislature of the State of Tennessee on February 4, 1850. Under this charter, the railroad company built a line of railroad from McMinnville, Tennessee southwesterly through Manchester, Tennessee to Tullahoma, Tennessee, where it connected with the railroad line of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company. The McMinnville and Manchester company opened of gauge railroad between McMinnville and Tullahoma in November 1856. In the absence of any contract with the original owner that differed with the franchises granted by law, the railroad was entitled