Transport Revolution: Railways

1820 - 1850

Beginnings:

• Coal industry
  • wooden tracks
  • tubs rolled on them
  • iron rails
  • flanged wheels
• 1808
  • Catch-me-who-can
  • Steam engine on wheels

Engineers

• George Stephenson
  • "Father of Railway"
    • 1820 first railway lines
      • Stockton to Darlington
        • Coal
    • 1830 second railway line
      • Liverpool to Manchester
        • Passengers
    • Width of gauge 1.4m
    • Establishes idea of the company
      • line
      • engine
      • rolling stock
      • stations
• Robert Stephenson
  • "The rocket"
    • Rainhill Trials
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  • Great Western Railway
  • Wider gauge
    • safer
  • Box tunnel
  • …