At the time, Liverpool and Manchester were proper cities, and while smaller towns, the railway that opened five years before this one that connected Stockton an

At the time, Liverpool and Manchester were proper cities, and while smaller towns, the railway that opened five years before this one that connected Stockton and Darlington clearly operated a similar model of moving goods and passengers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railwa... So I’d argue that they were moving first!