Today marks 200 years since the world’s first passenger railway journey. On September 27, 1825, around 450 people made the 26-mile journey from Shildon to Stockton in the north-east of England on a ...
As Britain celebrates 200 years of the modern railway, discover the world's oldest track or become a steam train driver for a day Surprisingly, the weather 200 years ago obliged, with the Durham ...
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people on Saturday celebrated the 200th anniversary of the historic British train journey that laid the foundations for much of the modern age. On Sept. 27, 1825, the first ...
Central railway station, Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by: Bildagentur-online/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The bicentenary celebrations of the birth of modern rail travel—commemorating the ...