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Hoping you were not old enough to know this first hand ;) This is fascinating? Where did you come across this info?
by abc_lisper 11y ago
Hoping you were not old enough to know this first hand ;)
This is fascinating? Where did you come across this info?
- melloc 11y agoThere's a Wikipedia article on this, it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainhill_Trials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainhill_Trials
- michaelbarton 11y agoThere's an excellent book on the start of the railways "Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain". It's very interesting and full of side stories about how people adapted to the start of the steam age. For example the one of the first railway lines was more like a toll road. A company built the tracks, and then other companies paid to run their locomotives on them. This lead to chaos where two locomotives would meet on the single track, neither was willing to back up, and so the passengers would often get out and fight each other over it.
- abc_lisper 11y ago>> neither was willing to back up, and so the passengers would often get out and fight each other over it. Hahahaha..
- abc_lisper 11y agoAdding it to my reading list. Thank you!