Storiascopio · Era 10 of 12 · lower secondary year 2
The first public steam railway
1825 · Stockton and Darlington, England
In short
On 27 September 1825, in England, the railway between Stockton and Darlington opened, the first public line to carry trains pulled by a steam locomotive. The engine, called Locomotion, had been built by George Stephenson and pulled wagons of coal and passengers. It went at about the speed of a bicycle, but it never got tired like horses. Within a few decades railway lines stretched all over the world.
Why it matters The train shrank distances: people, goods and news began to travel much faster.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Stockton and Darlington Railway”
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1712Event 13 of 251895
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