Rainhill
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Rainhill is a suburb of St Helens, Merseyside, England. It was formerly a separate village, then part of Prescot parish and borough.
It was the site of the famous 1829 Rainhill Trials where a number of railway locomotives were entered in a competition to decide a suitable design for use on the new Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The winner was The Rocket, designed by George Stephenson. In 1979 The 150th anniversary of the original Trials was celebrated by a cavalcade of trains through the ages including replicas of the winner and runner-up in the Trials. A feature of the village is the "skew bridge" of sandstone construction that takes the main road over the railway. The railway still runs through Rainhill. There is a station with frequent services to Liverpool, Manchester and Warrington.