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Swifter Than a Bird Flies: An Account of Riding the First Passenger Train
- PaulRobinson 10y agoThe Rocket (the machine in this account) is at London's Science Museum, South Kensington, in the same large room/hall as a jet-powered Rover car, an Apple I and a Cray I and a very early form of an ECG machine (no I don't know why either - seemed to be running out of space on the ground floor). Interestingly Manchester's Science Museum which is run by the same group is built around the World's first train station from which the Rocket served passengers to and from Liverpool.
- melling 10y agoThe 21st century has transformed rail again. We'll look back in another 10 years and realize what a difference high-speed rail made to a nation's infrastructure. The first 12,000 miles are done. Another 12,000 to go... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China
- Animats 10y agoYes. 15 September 1830 - the day the industrial revolution got out of beta. There had been steam engines for a century, and there were earlier steam locomotives, but they were demos and one-offs. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway had about a dozen similar locomotives. They had stations, signals, double-track line, carriages, schedules, and tickets. For the first time, all the necessary parts were in place and running in paid service. Suddenly, there was technology.