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Worldwide Railways Timeline |
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01/01/1500 |
Animal Power |
People in England Ireland and America used horses as a form of transport to pull wagons. But people in hotter countries such as Egypt and the Middle East would have used camels |
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05/04/1550 |
Wagonways |
Wagon ways are used in the mines of Germany to help the workers get coal to the surface, these wagons were pulled by small ponies. |
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05/04/1604 |
First Wagonways in Britain |
Wagon ways are built in Britain, these were made of wood and were 2 miles long, they cost 166 pounds |
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05/04/1700 |
tracks built with iron instead of wood |
By this time people began to use iron tracks instead of wooden tracks |
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05/04/1803 |
first steam locomotive invented |
The first steam locomotive was invented by Richard Trevithick. These trains were used to transport goods instead of passengers |
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05/04/1825 |
first journey of the steam horse |
Thousands of people came to see the steam horse on its first journey, but when it let off steam people were frightened and ran away |
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05/04/1829 |
1st inter city railway |
First inter city railway was built between Liverpool and Manchester |
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06/04/1829 |
Competition held for new train ideas |
The company building the inter city railway wanted better locomotives so they held a competition for people to bring their ideas forward, the award for 500 pounds. George and Robert Stephenson won, their ideas included heating the water better by using more pipes. Then they made the fire burn better and thirdly they improved the rods that connected the wheels to the engine. |
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05/04/1833 |
passengers could now use steam train as transport |
Trains now used to transport passengers as well as goods |
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05/04/1873 |
275000 people working for railway companies |
By this year, 275,000 people now working for railway companies, some as young as 14 |
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05/04/1879 |
First electric trains in operation |
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05/04/1892 |
diesel fuel was invented |
Rudolf Diesel invents diesel fuel now used in engines |
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05/04/1901 |
first monorails invented in Germany |
Monorails only travel for short distances and are guided by side panels and rubber guided wheels |
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05/04/1904 |
city of Truro engine is invented |
New engine built that was the first to travel at more than 100mph |
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05/04/1933 |
the electrification of the railway |
Trains now using mainly electricity instead of steam |
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06/03/1938 |
world record for fastest steam train |
new world record for fastest steam train, The Mallard train got up to speeds of 126 mph. designed by Nigel Gresley |
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05/04/1964 |
bullet trains in Japan |
In this year high speed trains were beginning to be invented in Japan . These were called bullet trains which could travel up to 300 mph. |
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05/04/1970 |
TGV invented in France |
In this time period the French had invented a high speed train called the TGV. on the 3rd of April 2007 it set the record for the fasted wheeled train. IT reached a speed of 574.8 km/h |
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05/04/2004 |
maglev train |
IN 2004 the maglev train completed a 30 km journey in 7 minutes and 20 seconds |
