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21 Feb - The world's first railway journey takes place in Wales

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21 Feb - The world's first railway journey takes place in Wales

Post by Kitkat Fri 21 Feb 2020, 11:22

The world's first railway journey takes place in Wales

The Penydarren Loco

On 21 February 1804, the world's first ever railway journey ran 9 miles from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal, South Wales. It was to be several years before steam locomotion became commercially viable, meaning Richard Trevithick and not George Stephenson was the real father of the railways. More...

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