VIDEO! If someone where to ask you "When was Britain's First Railway", what would you answer. Stockton & Darlington? Liverpool & Manchester? or something else ... youtu.be/pRO_O-mJYcU - ThreadSky

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geofftech.bsky.social • 34 days ago

VIDEO!

If someone where to ask you "When was Britain's First Railway", what would you answer. Stockton & Darlington? Liverpool & Manchester? or something else ...

https://youtu.be/pRO_O-mJYcU

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tringdriventhing.bsky.social•34 days ago

Pennydarren.

the-doctor07.bsky.social•34 days ago

Surrey iron works...

heysfan75.bsky.social•34 days ago

rikufryderyk.bsky.social•34 days ago

Shildon’s such a lovely railway town- did you get to walk down onto the high street?

t80ms.uk•34 days ago

There was a copper mineral leitnagel type railway in Keswick in the 1560s

ysgradorn.bsky.social•34 days ago

I think Jago beat you to it!

swalesmetroprof.bsky.social•34 days ago

Trevithick....Penydarren ironworks 1804. First steam railway...moving goods and people.

robertwoolley.bsky.social•34 days ago

Euston Square?

robertwoolley.bsky.social•34 days ago

...in 1809.

rclongauthor.bsky.social•34 days ago

The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was carrying passengers from 1807. (Not to mention all the minerals tramways that were around in the 18th century.)

rclongauthor.bsky.social•34 days ago

Not the first railway but this, from 1750, is apparently the earliest known picture of a railway.

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