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Trains That Changed The World

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April 2022

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We travel aboard the Great Western Railway to experience a journey of a by-gone age. The magnificent Pullman service continues to offer passengers a silver service restaurant menu as it whisks passengers to the coastal resorts that were established in the Victorian era.

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The Industrial Revolution was the single most important event in the development of the modern railway and one train from that era came to symbolise the new age of steam - Stephenson’s Rocket.

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The railroads ended slavery in the USA, but trains can be agents of oppression too. The British Empire built railways to rule the world, enabling it to control the empire.

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The stories behind the most important trains in history and their impact on the world, beginning with a look at the first locomotives during the Industrial Revolution.
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