The construction of the railway presented numerous engineering challenges including the need to tunnel under the River Thames, but it was achieved using the ‘Greathead Shield’ which allowed workers to dig and line the tunnel simultaneously.
The Lincoln Highway connected New York City on the East Coast to San Francisco on the West Coast, traversing 13 states along the way.
The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at Kings Cross St Pancras station.
By the end of the competition Rocket was the only engine to complete the full course without suffering any damage, securing Stephenson the contract to manufacture locomotives for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway that opened the following year.
The British MP William Huskisson died as a result of a fatal accident on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Mallard set the record of 125.88mph on a stretch of slightly downhill railway track at Stoke Band, south of the town of Grantham.
Built by George and Robert Stevenson in Newcastle, and transported to Whitstable by sea, Invicta was the first steam locomotive to haul passengers on a public railway line.
Not all the recommendations were implemented, but the subsequent Beeching Cuts resulted in the closure of 2,128 stations, thousands of miles of track, and the loss of up to 70,000 jobs.
The Type 2 finally debuted on 12 November and by the end of its first year over nine and a half thousand vehicles had rolled off the production line.
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