Industrial Age · Europe · Technology
1825
Stockton and Darlington Railway
September 27, 1825
George Stephenson's Locomotion No. 1 hauled a train of coal wagons and passengers - some riding atop the coal - twenty-five miles across County Durham. Crowds lined the track; a man on horseback raced the engine for a while. The world's first public steam railway was open, and the age of iron rails had arrived.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.